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July 20, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Most of the writing I do on this blog is not controversial. Last week was an exception. Last week I …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #binders, #binderwriters, #MondayBlogs, #wwwblogs, blogging, Ellen Willis, Emily Greenhouse, Facebook, Fight Club, networking, Opinion, social media, trends, Twitter, Vogue, women writers, writing
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July 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I currently participate in three Twitter hashtag memes. One, #MondayBlogs, is for retweeting blog posts – any sort, by anyone. …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #binders, #binderwriters, #hashtags, #MondayBlogs, #wwwblogs, Facebook, Fight Club, networking, social media, trends, Twitter, Vogue, women writers, writing
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May 11, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Jenna Matthys was one of three winners for Word Sprout’s Story Slam in on the theme “Thankful.” For the first time, …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, editing, interviews, performance, provoked, thankful, writing, writing process, YouTube
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May 4, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
On March 30, I posted a version of a story that was a work-in-progress for the monthly Word Sprout Story Slam. The …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Alzheimers, books, courage, courageous, editing, family life, puzzles, reading, revising, story slams, storytelling, writing, writing process
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April 21, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
When Nillu Nasser Stelter nominated me for the Liebster Award a month ago, I had only a vague idea what it …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, Memoir
| Tags: #MondayBlogs, blogging, Cheri Register, creative practice, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Liebster Award, Loft Literary Center, Lorraine Reguly, Nillu Nasser Stelter, Rachel Thompson, storytelling, writing, YouTube
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April 10, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowBackThursday (and for #ArchiveDay on Saturday), I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. Because I …
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Category: Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Anthony Trollope, creative practice, Loft Literary Center, productivity, Rosanne Bane, writing, writing process
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March 30, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This week’s blog post is a work-in-progress version of the story I will tell at Story SlamMN on April 1st …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, books, courage, courageous, family life, freshly pressed, puzzles, reading, storytelling, Work in Process, work in progress, writing
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March 9, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have work that pays my bills. I am thankful for that. But I did not perform a story …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: blogging, burnout, creative practice, day jobs, editing, revising, story slam, storytelling, thankful, Work in Process, writing
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February 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My morning reading these days is Julia Cameron. In particular, the second book in her Artist’s Way series, The Vein …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Artist's Way, creative practice, creativity, Julia Cameron, Lynda Barry, prayer, prompts, spiritual practice, storytelling, thankful, Vein of Gold, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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February 3, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am most definitely not at the stage of story development I like to be at two days before a …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: editing, frisky, images, prompts, quotations, revising, storytelling, Thoreau, Work in Process, writing