"Don't think I write for purgation. I write because I write well.... You have got to learn to paint with words."
The Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being
Susan Cushman
Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality (read my essay "Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow")
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All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality
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Creative Nonfiction at the Crossroads: September 21-22
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"Memoir: Art vs. Confessional" and 6 Other Articles
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A Good Blog is Hard to Find
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In Elizabeth Berg's wonderful book, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True, she says, "What you have to be is in love. With writing. Not with ideas about what to write; not with daydreams about what you're going to do when you're successful. You have to be in love with writing itself, with the solitary and satisfying act of sitting down and watching something you hold in your head and your heart quietly transform itself into words on a page." It must be love - I can't seem to get enough of it!
MEMORY ETERNAL
Bill Johnson January 21, 1930 - July 9, 1998 (Dad & Me in 1988)
Mary Allison Callaway January 11, 1978 - September 18, 1998 (my Goddaughter)
Michael E. Johnson, December 1, 1949-January 30, 2007 (my brother)
Loved this article Susan Cushman. The Platform is certainly a buzzword now in the publishing world. A couple years ago I was coordinating a writers workshop and one speaker sent her blurb for the press release, saying she'd be talking about building a platform. I was picturing something quite different, requiring hammer and nails. I listened to her talk and have been building my platform with my blog, newsletters, speaking events, always with selling my book as the goal. Hope you and your readers will visit my latest Writers Reminder (click) http://bit.ly/fCVh4p. Carolyn www.CarolynBLeonard.com
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Loved this article Susan Cushman. The Platform is certainly a buzzword now in the publishing world. A couple years ago I was coordinating a writers workshop and one speaker sent her blurb for the press release, saying she'd be talking about building a platform. I was picturing something quite different, requiring hammer and nails. I listened to her talk and have been building my platform with my blog, newsletters, speaking events, always with selling my book as the goal. Hope you and your readers will visit my latest Writers Reminder (click) http://bit.ly/fCVh4p.
Carolyn
www.CarolynBLeonard.com
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