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Goodbye November, Hello December

Nov 30, 2014 By elinwaldal 9 Comments

Just in time for us to wave goodbye to November and say hello to December, there is a breeze outside that seems determined to chase the warm temperatures away. In the distance clouds have formed, the sight of them leave me hoping that the weather channels warning of a rainstorm this week, is real. The idea that winter […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Friendship, NaBloPoMo14, Writers, Writing

My Writing Life–A Blog Tour About Writing

May 2, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

We gave our son, who is a rock climber, a Go Pro for his 27th birthday. If you are not familiar…it is a small movie camera that one can strap to their head, dashboard, bike–whatever–and it, the Go Pro, will then film what’s happening in the moment. But when my husband, Jimmy, mentioned to our […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: Blog Hop, The Writing Process, Writers

The Re-Write

Jan 31, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway Bleeding about sums it up, although in my case, it was at a computer where I bled-out my first draft. Galvanized by my desire to add a real story to the well of fictional stories that […]

Filed Under: All things Writing Tagged With: Memoir, Publishing a Book, Re-write, Tornado Warning-Memoir, Writers, Writing

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