This month’s b.read.crumbs post by Julie Herman, which you may find in the original on her website. Writing Workshops Writer’s workshops can be gold mines for inspiration about your work in progress — or they can stop you in your tracks. I’ve been in both kinds, and the former is one reason I keep going back…
Category: b.read.crumbs
writers on the writing life
b.read.crumbs: Julie Wray Herman
National Poetry Month This month’s b.read.crumbs post by Julie Herman, which you may find in the original on her website. Which some of us have taken to mean NaPoWriMo, or let’s try a poem day. I got this idea first from Liz Garton Scanlon, (see her lovely website here) Liz has been doing a haiku a…
b.read.crumbs : Poeting
Back in December 2021, I noticed that it was Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day. That’s charming, don’t you think? So I whipped out an email to a few of my Whovian friends (including Julie Herman) with that holiday as the subject. The message is long gone from my Sent folder, but it went…
b.read.crumbs: Summoning
My partner in b.read.crumbs, Julie Wray Herman, chose our topic for this month: Ritual. You can read her post about it on her blog or here So. Ritual. What is that exactly? I looked it up so you don’t have to. Ritual is “a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed…
b.read.crumbs: Julie Wray Herman
The Ritual of Creation This month’s b.read.crumbs post by Julie Herman, which you may find in the original on her website. I have been in a tussle recently with my creative self. I keep trying to draft new scenes that feel flat, keep searching my inbox for a happy letter from one of the agents I…
b.read.crumbs: Soaring
My partner in b.read.crumbs, Julie Herman, thought our topic for February should be short poems, since February is a short month. She kicked it off with her post a couple of weeks ago, in which she wrote about haiku. Julie loves her some haiku. Me? I love to read haiku, ponder haiku, and drift along…
b.read.crumbs: Julie Wray Herman
What is Short Anyway? This month’s b.read.crumbs post by Julie Herman, which you may find in the original on her website. According to my dictionary, short is a descriptor of distance. small in length, distance, or height: a short skirtHer hair is much shorter than it used to be.It’s only a short walk to the station.I’m fairly short but my brother’s very tall. But for writers, short has…
b.read.crumbs: Regrouping
Bringing you up to speed: the b.read.crumbs newsletter has transitioned to blog posts. For details, please see This Post by Julie Herman. And if you’d like to get updates in your email inbox, you can subscribe to the blog posts via the Get New Posts in Your Inbox button. Don’t worry-your email address is strictly…
b.read.crumbs, the tension issue
November 2022 Winter is upon us, with all its stress-inducing activities. Julie and Deb invite you to kick back with a nog of your choice, maybe some cookies (or fruitcake, which is Deb’s preferred indulgence), and let us entertain, amuse, and bemuse you. JULIE WRAY HERMAN I’ve been trying to think of a great example…
b.read.crumbs: Refreshing
from the blog of Julie Herman Here’s Julie Herman to explain what’s going on: Deborah-Zehna Adams and I had a blast last year starting a newsletter. We invited friends to play along, and they added to our joy. When the two of us talked about where to take b.read.crumbs next, we decided to try a…
