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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions

Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection.  What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems!… Continue reading Winning and Losing Writing Competitions

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The Lady With Too Many Books

Writing Challenge: Write a Poem or Story About Your TBR Pile   The Lady With Too Many Books There once was a lady who read and read anything with words to her family's dread, memoirs love stories spies cops and killers kings queens and handsome prince thrillers.   Books on the floor the bed the… Continue reading The Lady With Too Many Books