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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1September, 1 2024Back to School for Memoir WritersIt’s back to school time. Use this as a deadline to get your own work in shape. How? Be hospitable. Read up, and see what I mean by that. |
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| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21September, 21 2024Black and White and Still Read All Over. Thank Goodness.On this day 1784, The nation’s first daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began publication. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War, 37 independent newspapers kept our colonists informed. And these days? Well, we all know the tragedy that is befalling our newspapers. Want to write them a love letter? Go right ahead. Having trouble getting started? Try my How-To category here on the blog. | 22September, 22 2024The Autumnal EquinoxToday marks the Autumnal Equinox, that time of year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and moves southward, marking the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere. Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer and mathematician who lived around 190 – 120 BCE, is known for first observing and recording the equinoxes. The word “equinox” comes from the Latin for “equal night,” referring to the time when the sun crosses the equator and the day and night are nearly equal at 12 hours apiece. |
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