When to Stop Writing?

As I work today, periodically, revising my next lit mag submission and my 2006 Chapbook (tentatively titled Echolocation), I started thinking about when is it best to stop writing?
What I mean by this is: currently when I write I normally only have time to scribble the thought down and hopefully fill about a page of [...]

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It took 3.5 hours today before the sense of dread appeared….

It doesn’t usually take long for me, at work, to get this wave of dread. Seriously, the wave of dread feels very similiar to a wave of nausea. (And I know this post and my last post will have horrendous spelling errors . The dread began when I had to make a phone call [...]

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To Summarize Residency

How do you summarize a week of almost nothing of everything writing? Maybe the best word I can think: Full. That is how I feel right now: Full; full in the way of being content; full of information and excitement; full of really bad cafeteria food .
I won’t give a blow by blow hear [...]

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Additional Note on Chapbook

Earlier this week I finished Stacey Waite’s chapbook love poem to androgyny which I don’t have in front of me right now to know if I spelled anything correctly, but it was really good. The writer had a clear focus and the poems were well written. You can pick it up from Main Street Rag [...]

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Last Day of Residency

I am sitting in my cubicle where there is no a/c and listening to some light making a loud grumbling. But, I actually feel pretty good today.
Looking back at my blog, I can’t believe my last post is from Wednesday. Since then I have been through several more seminars, beginning of small group workshops (I’ll [...]

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Gave Work a Quickie

Finally did it this week! Came in and worked for an hour. Did as much as I could in an hour.
2nd full day of residency yesterday was good. I had my large group critique and I think it went well, especially considering I was not very happy w/ the poems I was turning in. But [...]

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Ah Residency

This is technically day 3 of residency. Day 1 was Sunday and was the meet/greet and manuscript exchange. It was fun being part of the welcoming committee. I managed to stay for everything on Sunday but I was socially exhausted by the time it was done! I am so glad I stayed though because I [...]

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