Writing the good read
Since the essay I wrote (and talked about in the previous post) was first published in the Los Angeles Times, it was picked up by several other media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, and papers in Alabama and Pennsylvania. The BBC called and had me record a version, which…
I said a couple days ago I was toying with linking to some other great blogs that were not participating in the blogathon, but which were great reads. There’s not a lot that I go to regularly, so I thought for a Sunday night’s reading, why not? First up is my guy’s blog, One Piece…
The remaining blogs I’m singling out as special don’t have a lot in common. Some of them have a kind of hippie-chick vibe that appeals to me — a grow your own food/do it cheaper kind of thing. But others are just good reads, great information, or plain old fun. Margarette Burnette runs the Coupons…
There are more than a hundred blogs participating in this year’s Freelance Success/WordCount Blogathon (for a full list, see this post). Every year I participate (this is my fourth), I make it a point to visit each participating blog at least once. Some of them sign up and don’t do much. Some are not to…
This is me and my guy tonight. For my 50th birthday dinner he took me out to Bis on Main, a restaurant in old Bellevue restaurant that seemed to be filled with old Bellevue type-residents (refined, of money, conservative), but with a distinctly forward looking idea about food — my salad included pickled rhubarb that…
Maybe twice in my life I’ve sat down with an idea in my head and written a solid first draft of a story from start to finish without stopping. You know how it is: one piece of the puzzle slides right into its place and you look at the pile of pieces and can immediately…
The list of blogs below? They are all folks who are participating in the Freelance Success/Wordcount Blogathon. Some of them will blog daily, like me. Some won’t. A few will drop out altogether. Don’t be judgy. You don’t know what’s going on in their lives. At any rate, take a look at them. All of…
Like many people who have a blog, I started off with the intention of writing regularly. Like many bloggers, life and intentions collide and I have found myself, at times, slacking off. Happily, there is the annual Freelance Success/Word Count Blogathon to get me back on track. Usually, though, I don’t go seven months without…
I remember hearing David Rakoff on This American Life and thinking he was David Sedaris, one of my favorite TAL contributors and authors, with a distinctive voice that makes everything he says funnier. I didn’t know he wrote books, too. But after he died of cancer at 47 last year, there was a lot of…
I didn’t have The Blue Book on my radar at all. But I read a review in the New York Times that talked about the author, AL Kennedy, as most closely akin to Richard Ford, whose book Canada I loved and wrote about previously. So I put it on my list. It sat on the…