Writing Advice: Paring Down
http://diddilydeedotsdreamland. zoomshare.com As writers, our imaginations are generally large by necessity and by nature. We imagine big ideas and try to transfer them into story form in one way or...
View ArticleDiscuss: Awesome Literary Things
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View ArticlePick-a-Poem: Barbara Hamby
http://riverwalkmamas.com Welcome to another pick-a-poem post, readers! If you’re looking a poetic pick-me-up in your day, I hope we can provide that. This week’s selection, from the ever-helpful...
View ArticleWriting Advice: Read Voraciously
http://gatherings.info Now, I know what you’re thinking. How can a post about writing advice be talking about reading, rather than writing? It’s a fair question, and one that has a very good answer....
View ArticlePick-a-Poem: Cygnus Cygnus
http://riverwalkmamas.com Hello, readers, and welcome to another poetry post. Our poem on this lovely August day is Cygnus Cygnus by Kiki Petrosino. Once again, this week’s post comes to us courtesy of...
View ArticleEditor’s Notes #128
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, readers! Welcome to another weekly wrap-up of the posts we’ve featured here on the Jet Fuel blog. I hope your summer is going splendidly! First, a...
View ArticleWriting Advice: Training
http://exam-training.blogspot.com I believe I’ve written on here before about the importance of the brain to all writers. The brain is, of course, our most important muscle. The brain is where we come...
View ArticleDiscuss: Awesome Literary Things
http://fancy.com/things/ 313511685782505865/Classic-Book-Stair-Decals Classic Book Stair Decals There are many ways to create a bookish environment in your home. As I’ve posted about before, there are...
View ArticlePick-a-Poem: “Freeze”
http://riverwalkmamas.com Good morning, readers, and welcome to another featured poem. This week, we found our poem at Poetry Daily, which is a really helpful site if you’re looking for daily poems,...
View ArticleDiscuss: “Real” Writers
http://terribleminds.com/ Are you a “real” writer? This may be a question that is snarkily posed to you by someone wearing hipster glasses or brandishing a glass of their own home-brewed beer. When...
View ArticlePick-a-Poem: “Child is Father”
http://riverwalkmamas.com Good morning, blog readers! If you’re looking for a bit of poetry in your day, then you’ve come to the right place. This week’s poem comes, once again, from Poetry Daily,...
View ArticleEditor’s Notes #129
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good evening, blog readers! We’ve reached the end of another week and that means it’s time to review what’s been posted lately on the blog. But first,...
View ArticleWriting Advice: On Routines
http://blog.blcklst.com A writing routine is one of the best tools at your disposal when it comes to being productive. Most writers will tell you that they have a certain time each day, or each week,...
View ArticleDiscuss: Autumn Reading List
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elbokkie Maybe if we all start blogging about autumn books the weather will get cooler. What do you think? The change of seasons is a time in which blogs and other bookish...
View ArticlePick-a-Poem: “Homecoming”
http://riverwalkmamas.com Good morning, blog readers, and welcome to another featured poem of the week. This week our poem is entitled Homecoming and it’s written by Franz Wright. As always, this...
View ArticleWriting Advice: 2 Pages a Day
http://blog.pshares.org Last week I wrote about routines, and how it’s very easy to fall away from them but not so easy to get back into them. One way to return to a writing routine is to set yourself...
View ArticleDiscuss: Fall Book Releases
http://literatureandalens.blogspot.com Last week I talked a bit about books that are well-suited to be read in the fall. This week I turn, instead, to books that are being newly released in the fall....
View ArticlePick-a-Poem: Ileana Mălăncioiu
http://riverwalkmamas.com Good morning, readers, and welcome to Wednesday! If you’re reading this post, you’ve made it halfway through the week. Wednesday around here means that we feature a poem for...
View ArticleEditor’s Notes #130
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Good evening once again, blog readers! I would like to welcome all the new editors and staff of the Jet Fuel Review who will be working on the journal...
View ArticleWriting Advice: Pacing
http://poeticfool.com One of the things that I struggle with the most when writing is pacing. During National Novel Writing Month — which is when I write the most and have come the closest to finishing...
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