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Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The power of a determined voice

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When Sarah Aronson was a nine-year-old girl growing up in Pennsylvania, she writes in the Author's Note to her new book, Abzuglutely: Ba...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Finding Your Way Home

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"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I ne...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

End of Year Musings

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It’s the end of the year and who can count how many hours we’ve sat at our desks waiting for words while the minutes passed by and our live...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

A Dry Heart

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Failure to sell your work, and the rejection that accompanies such failure, can eat away at your heart until there’s nothing left but a she...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Are You A Writer?

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Can you accept imperfection? Can you accept that you'll need to revise again and again (and still again), that the word you're lo...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

A Snail’s Pace

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This little guy, this snail (possibly known as the Globose Button or Mesomphix globosus , although I’m not a snail expert so ...
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Bruce Black
Chicago, Illinois, United States
A writer, editor, and teacher, Bruce Black earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and now searches for words and stories on Chicago's northern shore, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. His book for adults, Writing Yoga, was released in 2011, and his stories for children have appeared in Cricket and Cobblestone magazines. You can contact him at wordswimmer@gmail.com.
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