Tag: inspiration
There are the leaves, of course. There’s the back-to-school energy. There’s the first fire in the woodstove. There are, ahem, the shoes. (Yeah, I know, but I have some beloved closed-toed numbers I haven’t worn all summer.) And there is one grossly under-appreciated Fall wonder: the mushrooms.… Continue Reading “Five things to Love about Fall”
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Posted on September 21, 2012
by Catherine Austen
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Freewriting is a practice I first learned about in Spilling Ink (A Young Writer’s Handbook by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter). It’s simple: Once a day, begin to write and don’t stop – don’t take that pen off the page or those fingers off… Continue Reading “Freewriting”
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Posted on November 10, 2011
by Catherine Austen
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I was interviewed on Cubicle Blindness today, a reader review blog that had some nice things to say about All Good Children. Krista asked some great questions, like: The main character Max got excited at the fact that he got to fight. He seemed to want to… Continue Reading “Guest Author Interview (No Need to Blog Today)”
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Posted on December 8, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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The new kitten People always ask writers, “Where do you get your ideas?” (Okay, not many people have asked me that yet, but once I have more titles to my credit, they’ll start asking.) Really good ideas for a book – the sort of premises Michael Chricton… Continue Reading “Where do you get your Ideas?”
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Posted on March 9, 2010
by Catherine Austen
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First, my plane did not crash. (Make that planes, five of them, and not a single one crashed. What luck!) So I am back at home, alive, perfectly able to edit my draft novel/monstrosity before anyone reads it. But after two weeks vacation, I really don’t feel like… Continue Reading “Good News”
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