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ByMoeLong time BIW member, Christine Hammar (a.k.a Christine in Finland) recently announced an emotionally rewarding writing project her and 8 other women embarked on. They have written stories (one each) about “the thing in our lives that have bothered us most for years and years”. Christine says, “the theme of the stories is how a…
Miss Platnum — Give Me the Food
ByMoeIn late 2008 the video of Romanian songstress Miss Platnum made the rounds in the fat community. The video starts off with Miss Platnum eating and her mother chastising her for do so and telling her she was not going to make it in the music industry if she was not skinny. This whole conversation…
Collaging for Inspiration
I first learned of collaging for inspiration about ten years ago when I began reading a lot of self help books related to creating the life you want and how to manifest the things you want in your life. Some called it a collage, Shakti Gawain called it a “treasure map” in herย seminal book,ย Creative Visualization….
Great Artists Steal, Sort of
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” ~ Pablo Picasso A woman writes in a secluded room all day and submits her story to workshop the following day. The next week she is blasted for the unoriginality of her work. She ponders on how her work could have been unoriginal when it originated from her isolated…
The Web Issue
ByMoeLast week I received an email from Baihley Grandison, the Assistant Editor of Writer’s Digest, letting me know that Book-in-a-Week.com (BIW) had been selected for the “101 Best Website for Writers” May/June 2016 issue of Writer’s Digest. The Web Issue. This was exciting news of course but I wanted to let it sink in before…
The One Book
Any writer worth his salt is also a reader and usually a voracious one. How many times have you finished a book and thought, I could have written that. Or I could have written that better. Along the way comes the ones we wished we had written. Finally, there is the book that we esteem…