If you find inspiration in celebrations, this month we have St. David’s Day (3/2), Pi Day (3/14), the Ides of March (3/15), St. Patrick’s Day (3/17), the vernal equinox (3/20), Palm Sunday (3/28), and Passover (3/29). There’s also Canberra Day (3/8), an Australian holiday commemorating the founding of the federal capital. I’m not sure how …
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From her experience in breaking back into the poetic tribe as Dublin’s first poet laureate, Ronnie Holland will share how she taps into the poetic, universal time of her Muse and organizes functional time to complete chapbooks, contest entries and host or attend events. Join us on February 20 when Ronnie presents Kairos and Chronos: …
The Mother Goose nursery rhyme of Little Miss Muffet, popular in the early twentieth century, was both delightful and frightening to me when I first heard it many years later. I imagined a little girl sitting on a stool, dipping a spoon into a bowl of something similar to homemade cottage cheese. My fear of …
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Violet Carr Moore was a winner in the February Super Bowl Snacks haiku contest. Her poem was published in the printed editions of Contra Costa Times and Tri-Valley Herald. It also appeared online in the San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune where it was linked to encyclopedia.com.
If wisdom is knowing what to do next, then we become wise by being foolish, and experimenting until we see what works. In our writing, that might mean letting our characters, or even story arcs, wander about a little, until the true path is revealed; keeping patience until the wise agent who recognizes our value …
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What does it take to make it as a freelance writer in today’s stressed economy? Two local magazine editors, LeeAnne Jones, Managing Editor of Diablo and Napa Sonoma magazines and Peggy Spear, editor of Bay Area Parent, have the inside track, and will share their best tips at Tri-Valley’s first meeting of 2010. Expect to …
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Every year I clear my closet of clothes I haven’t worn for awhile. Occasionally a treasure surfaces, but usually I find items that really need to go. Perhaps we should try the same thing with our writing – go through old notes, ancient outlines and scraps of ideas. If there’s a hidden treasure lurking in …
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Annette Langer’s travel book, A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the World, will be released by the end of January 2010. The book chronicles her travels to all seven continents and the adventures that happened along the way.
Janie Hodges’ article “Teacher’s Kindness Goes On” was published on January 2, 2010, by the Bay Area Newspaper Group.
Violet Carr Moore’s true-life story “Miracle on a Train” was published in Christmas Miracles, an anthology by Cecil Murphey (St. Martin’s Press, October 13, 2009). She has also had two poems published in the Time Out section of The Valley Times and Tri-Valley Herald.
