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Point of View: Cocooning

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We started off 2026 with great hopes. Maybe this year would be different. Maybe things would finally start to change again, for the better. And then… Venezuela. And then… Renee Good. With this current administration, it’s always a new outrage, a new spectacle, always a new something horrible shoved in your face, each one more awful than the last. And so I am cocooning. I am spending the time I used to spend doomscrolling the news reading books instead. I am taking that space that he has been occupying in my brain for the last year, and allocating it instead … Read more

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Point of View: The (Scary) Art of Self Promotion

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Most of us writers are, by nature, solitary beasts. We are happiest when holed up in our writer caves, interacting only with people whom we control – our characters. Although many writers I know claim it’s the other way around! We decide what they are feeling, where they are going, and how and when that journey ends. Woe to the character who crosses an angry writer! We engage with them when we are ready, and there are no critics (outside of the inner one) to tell us we are doing it wrong. Sooner or later, though, we finish a story, … Read more