I have a confession to make. I hate the first day of summer. With a passion. Don’t get me wrong: I love summer, itself. Sun, swimming, cookouts, baseball, watermelon, drive-ins, sundresses, hammocks. These are all remarkably good things that make me wildly happy. It is just the first day of summer – the longest day… Read More First Day of Summer and other Nonsense
What is this? A blog entry? Shocking! One major reason for my blog this evening is the fact I spent Saturday writing with two of my girlfriends which always puts me a writing mood. We’re working on a photo-essay book of our vacations to Nantucket that will hopefully cause others to fall as deeply in… Read More Catching Up
Most of my blog and twitter entries lately have been about the book of essays I’m involved with: Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays. But tonight I’m taking a break from that project. I’m not even going to mention the shiny new link on the right hand side of the page. The… Read More Entertainment Updates
Thank you, Mother Nature. Leaving Key West during one of its brief and infrequent rain showers somehow makes it more bearable. I had been filling out an application at a local hair-braiding and bead tent before the rain started. But now I’ve resigned myself to returning to Maine, the cold weather and the need to… Read More Key West Travelogue
I have been very neglectful of my blog lately. I’m in that difficult place where I’ve got so much going on that I don’t have time to write about it. Then, when I do have the time to write, there are so many topics to choose from that my brain shorts out and I start… Read More Excuses, excuses…
A few months ago, I announced that I was taking February 29th off from work. Leap Day! I figure if the universe is going to gift me with a freebie day, I should take advantage of it, right? I planned to spend the day doing something I’d never done before. Like maybe rock climbing, learning to play chess or feeding the ducks in Boston Garden.
Of course, real life was not privy to the fact it was supposed to bend to my own personal needs, so it turned out that I couldn’t take the day off as I needed to travel for work. I wasn’t that disappointed, figuring that I could still build in an extra special activity somewhere during the day to make Leap Day memorable.
In the end, though, it turned out that the universe was watching out for me after all.
A little before noon time on February 29th, 2012 I got word that Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays was uploaded to Barnes and Noble and was available for purchase and reading with the Nook.
That kind of makes me a published writer.
I think I need to sit down.
As a reminder, I’ve previously shared the details about this project on my blog here:
https://laurakilmartin.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/write-for-the-fight-a-collection-of-seasonal-essays/
Okay, everyone… time to mark your calendars: March 5, 2012 What’s so important about that date, you ask? Well, let me tell you… It’s the day I get to change the tagline of my blog from “A Day in the Life of an Unpublished Novelist” to… Hmm…. Okay, technically I’m still an unpublished novelist, but… Read More Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays
Just to give you some background into my mental state – or lack thereof – this weekend, I’ve been given a great opportunity to contribute to a book of essays that will be published later this spring. I’ll share more about the project as the publication date grows closer, but what is relevant to tonight’s story… Read More How I Spent My Weekend
It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I last updated my blog. I’m sure there are a number of excuses I could come up with and may even devote an entry to those excuses in the future. For now, though, let’s just say that 2011 was a bit of a crazy year and writing wasn’t high… Read More Happy (Belated) New Year!!
While at Muse 2011 a few weeks ago, I started talking with some folks about online blogs and journals. Several people told me that online magazines or other similar websites are great ways to get writing experience. Basically, these sites hire you to write essays about subjects of their choosing. The more popular your essay is, the more traffic you get to… Read More Reality TV
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