Recipe for Succeeding in the Publishing World Ingredients: Fistfuls of Talent Luck Desire Craftwork Perseverance as Mix everything together, adding an extra cup of perseverance. Want a taste? Sample this Read More
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
June 17, 2013
Summer Reading We are closing in on the longest day of the year. More daylight means more opportunity to ponder the vagaries of the writing process. Here are a couple of books Read More
June 3, 2013
Misery Loves Miserable Company I have been cleaning – the frenzied kind that leaves piles of debris all over the house, detritus that will be swept out, later rather than Read More
May 20, 2013
Guest Blogger: Kathy Dunn as Writing on the Slow Train as “A good thought, like a good donkey, is something to be nurtured. Neither likes to be rushed.” –Slow Travel Europe Read More
May 6, 2013
Guest Blogger: Kathy Dunn as A friend and fellow writer sent me the following quote: akljf “I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone Read More
April 22, 2013
Musing on Slow Words I bought new stationary today. Colorful painted birds on bright white paper made from cotton rags. My intention – to start writing letters again to my old friends, Read More
April 1, 2013
Straw Dog mugs have arrived! With the arrival of spring has come a flock of shiny new Straw Dog mugs! We love them… and already they have inspired the Read More
March 18, 2013
SDWG Goes to AWP 2013 Boston was filled to the brim with writers last week. The annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2013 Conference (AWP) attracted over 11,000 authors. Read More
March 4, 2013
as You Can’t Go Home Again as Fiction as At the age of fifty-one, with ninety-seven representative samples of my work published in what are kindly called literary journals, Read More
February 17, 2013
as Why shop at an independent bookstore? as When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits: The Economy • Spend $100 at a local and $68 Read More