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Try this wacky avatar hack!
As part of a course I’m taking through Carol Tice’s amazing website Make a Living Writing, I received the following homework assignment: put an avatar up on Gravatar to pop up whenever I comment on...
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On Writing About Writing: a guest post by Miriam Hendeles, author of Mazel...
Miriam’s Book! Today’s guest post is from my partner in crime writing, Miriam Hendeles. What do writers write about? We write about our lives and our families. Some of us write about our struggles and...
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The Writing for Pay-Writing for Blog Balance
Lately, I’ve been neglecting my blog. I’m not being delinquent; I’m just being practical. Thank G-d, I’ve been doing a lot of writing in the last couple weeks, writing that is both fun and paying (my...
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Better Writing vs Better Sales: What makes a better writer?
Today’s post from The Write Practice got me thinking. In it, Joe Bunting suggests that we worry too much about sales, and even about how good our writing is. I love these two lines: Does the fact that...
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When the trolls try to drag those you love under the bridge.
“Take that, you nasty troll! Maybe you’ll think twice before saying mean things about my sister again!” I hate trolls. Not the fictional kind. The internet kind. I’ve blogged about it before. But now,...
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Considering my last year of literary pursuit
Since there are just two weeks left of the Jewish year of 5773, I’ve been looking back at the last year and evaluating my life on every level: spiritual, physical, and even professional. And one goal...
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I am not a blogger
I am not a blogger. There, I said it. I came to this realization yesterday, after the funny (as in “weird,” not in “haha”) response I had to PopChassid’s marvelous list of 7 bloggers he thinks deserve...
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On Writing About Writing: a guest post by Miriam Hendeles, author of Mazel...
Miriam’s Book! Today’s guest post is from my partner in crime writing, Miriam Hendeles. What do writers write about? We write about our lives and our families. Some of us write about our struggles and...
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The 3 Comments I Hate to Find on my Articles
Last week, a personal essay of mine appeared on Tablet Magazine online. As it hit the front page, I braced myself. A couple of my previous contributions to Tablet received a lot of comments…including a...
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10 Great 2014 Anniversaries to Write About in the Months Ahead
Following up on a suggestion (I wish I could remember who passed along this hint!), I was scoping out historically significant anniversaries occurring in 2014 as potential topics for my writing. St....
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