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The Blank Page (That Matters Most)

May 28, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Blank notebook

I listened to this episode of the A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment podcast yesterday. I loved Jess Walter’s point about the importance of the page (as it relates to writing). During a live interview before an audience in Minneapolis, when asked who he writes for, he replied: There was a book a while back in […]

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Third Annual Writing Retreat

April 30, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 11 Comments

Cabin at Cooper Lake State Park

Last weekend was the third annual writing retreat with a friend. Just like the two before, this one was at a Texas State Park (we returned to Cooper Lake State Park). After hiking around Caddo Lake State Park last year, we looked forward to hiking this year,but…the weather conspired against us. In fact, on the […]

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A Week from Today

April 17, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 3 Comments

Cooper Lake State Park Cabin Table

A week from today, I will be writing. Rewriting, actually. (Rewriting a novel and hanging out with a friend on our annual writing retreat.) I’ve talked about the retreats here and here (and other times on this blog). I won’t talk about all the things I like about the annual writing retreat again, but its […]

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Writing Inspiration

March 19, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Woman holding a sparkler

As a writer, waiting to be inspired is dangerous. There are no muses. To quote Yoda: Must do if one is to write. (Okay, so maybe Yoda didn’t say that…) While waiting for inspiration is tragic, I’d still argue that as a writer, inspiration is important. Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Inspiration Writing is rarely […]

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The Power of Not Giving a Shit (About Social Media and Numbers)

February 4, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Guy chillin' near the water

I love social media. I love that Twitter serves just as much as a micro news feed for me as it does a way to stay in touch with people. While I’m not much of a fan of Facebook (it’s where I see the most angry politics, Buzzfeed link shares, and photos of kids with […]

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Salad Days (Of Writing)

January 5, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund 4 Comments

Lettuce

I always wanted to write, but I was never that teenager tapping out my first attempts at novels on a typewriter or scrawling in yellow notebooks. Hell, I didn’t even write short stories. In my teen years, I juggled. Any storytelling I did came as a Dungeon Master for my friends — not as someone […]

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On Doing What You Love

January 2, 2015 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Heart drawn in sand

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this: Do what you love, and the money will follow… It’s a nice thought, but it’s not very realistic. Show me the rare working poet doing something even more rare: putting on arm floats and leaping into their Olympic-sized pool full of hundred dollar bills. Most literary […]

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The Most Important Thing I Read All Year

December 31, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Heron

Yesterday, I wrote about the best books I read this year. Today I’m writing about the most important thing I read this year… I usually don’t ask the people who follow the things I do online to do things for me. I feel that content is a gift, and if I’m creating it in the […]

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In Special Places

December 21, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Misty gray beach

We all have our places — locations that make the speed of everyday life seem to fall away and remind us that when we slow down, the things we love best are easier to do. It’s not just about writing, but for the sake of this entry, that is what I’m talking about: those places […]

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Commercial Writing vs. Art

November 22, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Among the Sierras painting

I’ve seen quite a few people (writers) share this quote from Ursula Le Guin’s acceptance speech at the National Book Awards. (Le Guin received the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.): Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written […]

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Light in the Dark

November 20, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Stars at night

In recent months, the goal has been simple: finish the first draft of the current novel by year’s end. It’s an ambitious goal, and it may be more like, “The current novel will be finished by the end of the first month of the year,” but the point is this: I’m close! And in that […]

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Sticking to a Writing Plan

November 2, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Map and compass

One day not so long ago, while working on a novel, I came to this conclusion: This would be much better as three novels. So that’s what I did. No longer was A Magic Life going to be just one book — it was now going to be three. And as I near the end […]

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Year Five

September 8, 2014 by Christopher Gronlund 6 Comments

Five years ago, I wrote the first entry for The Juggling Writer. Looking back at my earnest beginning, I hoped the blog would show people how to manage their time in order to get things done (life and writing in harmony). I know I’ve written plenty of entries focused on that very thing, but I’m […]

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