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On the Craft of Writing

January 13, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Over the years, I’ve gotten rid of several bookcases worth of books. Despite those purges, I still have three shelves full of books about writing craft. I think I keep most for the sake of nostalgia, but some — especially style guides and books about grammar — are things I return to now and then. […]

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The Problem with Targets

January 11, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

A disclaimer: This is not an entry in which I set out to make the argument that targets are inherently terrible. It’s great to have goals…at some point, you have to look forward and say, “I want to reach that point!” But for many, targets (and the ways to hit them) become almost more important […]

Filed Under: Productivity

The Year That Was…

December 31, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 3 Comments

And so we come to the end of not just another year, but one of the years! It’s not a year I’d hope to repeat, but it was not without its moments. Obviously, the big thing was the pandemic and just…all that out there! (You know what I mean.) For me, it was a year […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

A Matter of Trust

October 30, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

The other morning, I read this essay by Hilary Mantel about writers learning to trust themselves. It’s full of gems like this: You must recognize, though, that once you enter this life, you are at the disposal of your book around the clock. And there are no holidays. And this: Writing is a long game […]

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The Return (To Social Media)

September 30, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

The annual social media break is almost done — tomorrow I return to it all. It started years ago when I mentioned I was considering stepping away a bit, which quickly escalated to dares from friends committing me to 101 days off of all social sites. The September tradition continues each year for me, with […]

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On Limitations

September 18, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

[I wrote this 10 days ago and guess I didn’t set it to publish. Still holds up, so here it is…] * * * [The idea for this entry came from this Muddy Colors entry by Justin Gerard about his ideal art space. The gist: he has a fancy desk, but he usually does his […]

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Year Eleven

September 8, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 4 Comments

Eleven years ago today I started The Juggling Writer. It’s changed quite a bit since this first entry. I don’t post as much as I once did. Gone are lists and things that were more, well…bloggy. It’s now a place where I share whatever comes to me (when I have time to post). The Goal […]

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Sometimes You Just Know…

September 5, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

I’ve been on an earlier-than-usual morning schedule, getting up around 4:00 a.m. to read and write. It doesn’t hurt that with the arrival of September, North Texas has been unseasonably cool and cloudy and rainy. (By “unseasonably cool,” I mean lows in the 70s and highs in the low to mid 80s…with clouds.) Friday morning, […]

Filed Under: A Magic Life

The Way We Talk

September 2, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

The two worst years of my life were junior high school. (More than the years in which close relatives died; more than the year I found out a brain tumor blew up in my head and was bleeding into itself and making me go blind in my right eye.) Those two years in junior high […]

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September Silence 2020

August 31, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

It’s that time again: September, when I take a month-long social media break and focus on writing. A friend dubbed it “The September Silence,” and it’s a fitting name because that’s what I seek this month each year: a quieter time to fall into one of the things I love most in life. While September […]

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Reading for Thought

August 21, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

This morning during breakfast, I read this article about what it means to teach high school writers about being published. There was one line, from a student working on a literary publication for high schoolers, that particularly hit me: Editing for Polyphony forced me to slow down. I began to realize that previously, my eyes […]

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Fantastic Writing

July 29, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

When many hear the word fantasy to describe books, they think about swords and sorcery. And sure, there are the obvious stories: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Song of Ice and Fire (the series Game of Thrones is based on), and The Chronicles of Narnia, but fantasy is also Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Audrey […]

Filed Under: storytelling

Your Wild and Precious Life

July 17, 2020 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

There are two things most writers seem almost trained to not talk about: money and the likelihood they will never “make it.” On the money front, it’s everything from how much (or little) writers make…to how important having money to begin with can lead to making more money as a writer. (It’s a topic definitely […]

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