Margot Shumway
The "t" is silent
This month is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo as it’s known in the writing world. I’ve signed up (again) to write fifty thousand (50k) words by the end of the month. It’s a daunting goal but I’m excited to face it head-on. November is a month where for writers anything becomes something. I...
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Continue readingWhen I was a freshman in college I stopped eating meat. For seven years I avoided meat in everything I ate. I didn’t have any grand idea behind wanting to do it other than wanting to see if I could. And I did. And then one day when I was home at my parents...
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Continue readingWhen you sit down to write, prepare to fight off the distractions. Knowing you'll be interrupted will help you come back to the work and persist until it's done. ...
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