Monthly Archives: October 2009

Working from home – three caveats

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Bill Wren

We all have ideas about what working from home would be like and most of them reflect the upside of it, or at least what we imagine the upside to be. I think most would be roughly accurate so I … Continue reading →

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Sometimes the start isn’t where you start

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Bill Wren

With the help of Twitter, I came across Alexander Chee‘s great essay on the subject of writing, Annie Dillard and the Writing Life. One part in particular struck me (I added the bolding): In the cutting and cutting and the … Continue reading →

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Write about what you don’t know

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Bill Wren

Not long ago I came across the flash fiction blog, The Rose City Sisters. I’ve always liked the idea of flash fiction so I looked at the guidelines and started writing. Included in the parameters was, “a Pasadena connection.” (This … Continue reading →

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When is a writer real?

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Bill Wren

Last week I came across a discussion over on LinkedIn about “real” writers. It began with a post about how sometimes you can come across a bully type in writing discussions, someone asserting that to be a “real” writer a … Continue reading →

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Can you hear me now?

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Bill Wren

(This was originally posted October 23rd, 2005 on another one of my blogs, one that is on hiatus. I’ve edited slightly to make the terminology more current.) I came across a post about blogging and social media and know exactly … Continue reading →

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