Category Archives: The Writing Room

The art and craft of writing. Writing tips.

A Case of the Human Condition: How Do I Mother My Twenty-Somethings? The Same Way I Mothered My Ten-Year-Olds - With Overkill

Christina hadn’t called. We had dropped her at the airport hours ago. The flight to Burbank takes only seventy minutes. She should be home by now. But Jon and I still hadn’t gotten the, “I’m home. The plane didn’t crash. My roommate remembered to pick me up, and we didn’t get mugged in the garage,” phone call.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder - But What If There’s No Beholder?

A flowering tree grows hidden in the canyon below our house. If no one sees it bloom, is it beautiful? Without a beholder, can there be beauty?

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The Writing Room: My Idea of a Good Time — A Week in the Mountains with a Bunch of Other Writers

I’ve attended the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley summer conference three different times and loved every moment. It’s a great chance to meet writers, editors, agents — and work on your writing.

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The Writing Room: George Leonard and the Tao of Writing

George Leonard, one of the fathers of the human potential movement, and I both worked at Look magazine during the 1960s. We knew each other — that is to say, we were aware of each other — at Look, I more aware of George than he of me. I was a very young editorial secretary and not a very good one. He was a Look writer and a star.

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The Writing Room: Carol Edgarian’s Letter to a Young Writer

Whether you’re a brand-new writer or writer of many years, be sure to check out Carol Edgarian’s letter to a young college graduate who wants to write but doesn’t know where to start.

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