Recommended Pages at beyondthemargins.com
The Power of Words | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Necee Regis For the past year and a half I’ve been someone’s demon. I had no idea. Seems that an essay I posted on this blog in 2010, Travel Writing 101, shaped someone’s writing for a year and a half. Not in a positive way, mind you, but in ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Misunderstanding and the power of words - terrific post by @neceeregis today @BTMargins http://t.co/zgxxKUVV #writing
Out Of My Comfort Zone: These Boots Were Made For Missing | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Matthew Dicks I met Deborah Copaken Kogan three years ago at a writer’s festival in Vermont. Since then, we have maintained a friendship through social media, and I always make it a point to click on the photographs that she posts to Twitter. I love Deb’s writing, but I ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 11, 2012 at 10:36 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
What's out of @MatthewDicks comfort zone? That whole female sensibility thing. Very funny post today at @BTMargins http://t.co/B2DGe5kn
A Bit of Controversy in Your Platform? | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Tracy Hahn-Burkett Should the writer of fiction or creative non-fiction discuss politics online? The prevailing wisdom says no. As writers in the twenty-first century, most of us necessarily spend nearly as much time growing and nurturing our platforms as we do writing the books and shorter works those ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 10, 2012 at 11:11 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
On controversy - @THahnBurkett at @BTMargins asks what's the point of being a writer if you can't speak out? http://t.co/1cvZOPg2 #writing
On Voice: Grit, Style and Credence | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Kathy Crowley Just the other day my 11 year old son and a few of his friends were discussing the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. They all had great things to say – despite the fact that When You Reach Me has a significantly “quieter” plot ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 5, 2012 at 6:37 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
My post - On Voice: Grit, Style and Credence http://t.co/2o9o3KvQ #writing
The Terrible Beauty of Understatement | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Nichole Bernier You know what’s impressing me lately in great writing? It’s not the gorgeously detailed sunset or the ruthless death scene or the lifelike rendering of a surgery or even the deft emotional pivot. As impressive as they are, none of them bring me to my knees like ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 4, 2012 at 10:43 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
"When you tell less, you're trusting the reader to get it." @NicholeBernier & the power of understatement at @BTMargins http://t.co/YJAPD0Hd
The Savvy Writer’s Guide to Simultaneous Submissions | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “ By Becky Tuch I took my first adult writing workshop when I was 23. Our group met once a week in the dining room of an elderly ex-alcoholic notorious for her tough love. When a fellow student asked whether it was okay to submit a story to many journals ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on April 3, 2012 at 11:53 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Who doesn't want to be SAVVY? @TheReviewReview at @BTMargins: The Savvy Writer's Guide to Simultaneous Submissions. http://t.co/vwK99W9y
Conquering fears in fiction | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “ By Stephanie Ebbert Years ago, hiking in the Shenandoah National Park, I discovered I was mildly afraid of heights. It wasn’t the summit that scared me – that was exhilarating – but getting to it. The trail spanned haphazard rock piles and gap-toothed boulders, smooth and ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 26, 2012 at 11:57 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
"Run toward the edge, not away." @StephanieEbbert on confronting fear in your writing, today at @BTMargins. http://t.co/X9lTUB0e
Inequality in Publishing: What Can Be Done? | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Becky Tuch By now you’ve surely seen the numbers. VIDA, an organization dedicated to women in the literary arts, has done an incredible service to the literary community by amassing the statistics regarding gender breakdown in publishing. If you’ve seen the pie charts, then you know: women writers are ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 19, 2012 at 10:52 pm By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Gender parity in publishing and @TheReviewReview's thoughts on the VIDA numbers http://t.co/IwBFrTGU
Out Of My Comfort Zone: Drinking Beer With Dead Relatives | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “ By Rebecca K. O’Connor When I began to work on my falconry memoir Lift in earnest, much to my bemusement I found it was a book about mothers and daughters.I had always thought I was writing a love song to men— good, bad and lost to us. Yet, even though it ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 15, 2012 at 1:35 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
ICYMI: How memoirist @rebeccakoconnor confronted the graveyard, and had a beer with grandma, today at @BTMargins . http://t.co/nuHna093
What it Takes to Save A Bookstore | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Nichole Bernier When Beyond the Margins launched #SavetheBookstore day a few months ago, the idea was to identify bookstores facing a particular, surmountable challenge. Say, inventory flooded by Hurricane Irene. A store that had burned down. A store facing a rent war with its landlord. Much as we might ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 8, 2012 at 11:36 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
What it takes to save a bookstore. From @NicholeBernier today at @BTMargins http://t.co/RLpSKxPk #books
Still Searching | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Joseph Wallace In 1979-80, the year after I graduated from college, I Iived with my parents in Brooklyn Heights and worked at McGraw-Hill, the behemoth Manhattan publishing company. I was grateful to have a place to stay and any job at all, but that time still felt like a ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 7, 2012 at 11:18 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Today at @BTMargins -- @Joe_Wallace on a lost box of postcards and becoming enamored of the past. http://t.co/vOJDUk6d #writing #amwriting
How Contraception & The VIDA Count Gave Me Nightmares | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Randy Susan Meyers I woke up (just moments ago) with the proverbial pounding three am heart. I had a nightmare about trying to convince unresponsive authorities about young girls being attacked. The specifics of my nightmare don’t matter (is there anything more boring than hearing someone recount their dreams ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 7, 2012 at 2:01 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Smart & insightful - @randysusanmeyer on gender/politics/publishing: "How the VIDA Count Gave me Nightmares" http://t.co/XKi6IRRD
Your Brain on Cookies — Part I | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Kathy Crowley* I hope no one here will judge me too harshly when I say that I hated reading Proust. (*Ducks to avoid cookies and tea cups thrown by rabid Proust-lovers.*) It was forced on me in high school, where I found it long and just, well, so Proustian. ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on March 1, 2012 at 11:08 am By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
P.S. Even if you don't want to read my post, check out the graphic @gripemaster made for it. #youwillsmile #amwriting http://t.co/XFbBgnqN
Focus: It’s overrated. | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “By Anna Solomon A week or so ago, I came upon Hanif Kureishi’s essay, “The Art of Distraction,” in The New York Times Sunday Review. What seems at first to be a defense of a child’s meandering attention unfolds toward the end into a provocative meditation on the relationship between distraction ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on February 27, 2012 at 12:16 pm By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Today at @BTMargins - @SolomonAnna on the balance btwn focus and distraction. #writing #amwriting http://t.co/8uFFP8Vk
Mixed Feelings About Pinterest: The Latest Shiny New Thing | Beyond The Margins
beyondthemargins.com — “ By Nichole Bernier I was not tempted by Pinterest. Not when I saw the first displays, beautiful images hung like dreamy posters on a teen’s wall, and not even when a friend fell down the rabbit hole and urged me to join her, Come, Nichole, tea with the Mad ...” View full resource at beyondthemargins.com
Most Recently Shared on February 24, 2012 at 12:23 pm By:
Kathleen Crowley Internist, Physician, and Doctor
Today at @BTMargins, our own @NicholeBernier ventures boldly into the new bright and pretty: Pinterest. http://t.co/gC59FJ83 #Pinterest
