http://editeyes.com The Business of Writing Your Way Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:14:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The books I read in 2009 were varied, leaving me quite satisfied about that aspect of the year. I got an iPod for Christmas 2008, so I was able to listen to a lot of audiobooks, though I had a weird spell starting in August when I repeatedly rejected my audiobook ... http://editeyes.com/reading-list-2009 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10694814-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Since it is not always possible to secure a wonderful retreat at some place like Norcroft or Soapstone (one place I've been, the other I've applied to), I often ... http://editeyes.com/making-a-writing-retreat The book launch for Between Two Women was one year ago this past weekend. It was a fabulous party and wonderfully validating. And it was my first promotional event! In the year since, I can't say I've been a highly successful book promoter, but I've learned a lot, and it ... http://editeyes.com/book-promotion-5-resources When I was pregnant with my third child, I read that each time a new child enters a family, a number of new relationships are formed, that number being relative to the number of people already in the family. In other words, in our family of 4, when we added ... http://editeyes.com/writers-groups-adding-members I recently spent 3 days working with Ellen Bass at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. Dorianne Laux says that Bass creates "poetry that goes straight to the heart." Her books, Mules of Love and The Human Line, are smart, intimate, and insightful. Ellen Bass is also a marvelous teacher. She ... http://editeyes.com/risk-discovery-ala-ellen-bass Last week I spent four days writing in a motel room. The opportunity for deeply focused work is certainly a luxury I can’t afford very often, either in terms of time or money. But I’m committed to finding ways to retreat so that I can write. A retreat needs to be ... http://editeyes.com/writing-retreat-supporting-the-process I always pause when faced with a possessive construction that involves two people. Do you add the apostrophe "s" to both names or only to the latter one? Somewhere along the line I learned to put it on both names, but I was never confident about this usage. Then the other ... http://editeyes.com/double-possession-punctuation-lesson Last time, I wrote about the challenges of maintaining a committed writers group.  I promised that in the next post I would list the guidelines that have proven effective in my writers groups. Here they are: We ... http://editeyes.com/writers-group-guidelines I can't say enough good things about my writers group. They are kind but astute critics. They are dependable both in putting writing first in their lives and in making our group meetings a priority. We celebrate one another's successes, be it publication, finding just the right title for a ... http://editeyes.com/i-love-my-writers-group Yesterday, I put together a registration form for the 2009 Medocino Coast Writers Conference. This morning I read an article in Poets & Writers (May/June 2009) entitled "Conferences, Festivals Taking a Hit." The juxtaposition helped me answer a question I'd been asking myself: Why do I need to go to ... http://editeyes.com/confernces-festivals-why-go