The Deadline Calendar

Your New Best Friend:
The Deadline Calendar

GO ON, TRY my interactive calendar of emotional high holy days, regular-version high holy days and more. It’s probably my number one memoir writing tip, since writing on deadline, or to a deadline, is one of the single best ways to learn how to write memoir.

Hover your cursor over a cinnamon-colored date to see what pops up. Use it to start personal essays, radio pieces and op-eds to submit on deadline. How? Look three months out for radio ideas; six to twelve for magazine pieces. Pluck something from the calendar and start now to submit the very best work you can produce.

Here is how to stop using writing prompts and writing exercises, those time-wasting devices leave you merely practicing writing. You want to write with intent, and you want to succeed. So start today and do so.

Write with intent: Pick a date, write to it, submit the piece. Read and react. You’re a writer. That’s what writers do. So write on.

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January, 2 2025

Winter Home of Monarch Butterfly Discovered

On this day in 1975 was the discovery of the winter home of the Monarch Butterfly. The monarch migration is one of the world’s greatest natural wonders when each year, hundreds of millions of monarchs migrate between the United States and Canada to areas in Mexico and California. I find this inspiring, and might add a post about it to my Creative Inspiration blog category.

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