by brenda | Aug 23, 2018 | About Writing, Futurist Posts, News, Personal, Politics
This post is a lightly-edited version of one that went out in my newsletter. If you like it, please consider signing up. I send out about ten newsletters a year. They include posts like this, reading recommendations, and sometimes some of my writing. My son just...
by brenda | Jul 7, 2018 | About Writing, Global Warming, Reading Recommendations
Every once in a while, a book’s ideas and presentation will wake me from sound sleep and make me fumble out of bed and grab coffee at an odd hour. This does not happen often anymore; as a writer I am often ever-so-slightly distanced by being able to see the...
by brenda | Feb 10, 2018 | About Writing, Backing Into Eden, Interviews, News, Publications, Reading Recommendations
I’m really excited to share some news. If you read my newsletter, you heard this story. If you don’t, and you want new stories about once a month, you can sign up here. Here’s my news…..I finished my first-ever work as a fiction editor. This project, the...
by brenda | Nov 1, 2017 | About Writing
So the first draft of Keepers (the sequel to Wilders) is turned in! I track my time, and it took 255 hours to get the book to this point. The first entry was in February. So that’s 9 months, at roughly 28 hours a month, although in reality there were three big...
by brenda | Jul 21, 2017 | About Writing, News, Personal
I recently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Stonecoast. A number of people asked me why, and others have whether or not it was worth it. So here’s my write-up, which might help mid-career authors who are considering an MFA. First – a brief description. Stonecoast...
by brenda | Apr 25, 2017 | About Writing, Essays, Futurist Posts, Global Warming, Travel
I am writing this from a coffee shop in DC. One of the reasons I came here at this time was to participate in the March for Science right here in the capital. The March I ran into three friends, fellow writer Brenda Clough and her husband Larry Clough, and another...