Tag Archive for ‘Lisa Romeo’
Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo Adds Her Two Cents to the Writer-as-Parent Manifesto
[Editor's note: Yesterday, on her terrific blog about writing, writer/editor Lisa Romeo talked about Louise DeSalvo's piece in this space and added some tips of her own. Thanks, Lisa, for giving me permission to post them here as well.] Just the other day I was passing along tips to some writing class students who have school-age children and were explaining (that is, complaining) how little time this leaves them to write. Then today I came across this tough-love post by [...]
Quick Link: Lessons Learned Writing Bird in Hand
This week I did a guest post for Lisa Romeo Writes, a terrific blog about writing and the writing biz. (One of my favorite features on the blog is Lisa’s Friday Fridge Clean-Out, a weekly roundup of interesting and newsworthy links.) I wrote about what I learned in the process of writing Bird in Hand — not about writing, but about life. You can read the post here. An extra incentive to click through: Lisa is giving away a copy [...]
Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo on Dealing with Rejection
Literary essayist, editor, and writing coach Lisa Romeo writes: Writers tend to think of rejection as something done to us by outsiders. We paint it as something we cannot control, as something to be feared and avoided, when in reality, rejection begins with ourselves. Early on. Even before we start writing, we reject our own creativity. We dismiss our ideas, our skills, our imagination before we give them a chance to work themselves out on the page. We squash the [...]
