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2010

December 28, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 3 Comments

Hopefully you’ve been thinking about 2010 and your writing plans. If you haven’t, there’s still time in 2009 to give it some thought. Call it a resolution — call it a plan, but it’s important to look at next year and decide what you’ll make happen with your writing. *          *           * I could come […]

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The Gift of Books

December 25, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 5 Comments

Yesterday, I wrote about giving the gift of reading. In yesterday’s blog entry, I wrote about how my mom is one of the people who made me love reading. We had a very rare white Christmas in north Texas. (I haven’t seen a white Christmas in 25 years, when I used to live north of […]

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The Gift of Reading

December 24, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Some of my fondest memories are of my mom reading Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories to me when I was a kid. My sister read…a lot! It’s natural for a younger sibling to do what an older sibling does, so I became a reader, too. One of my favorite Christmas gifts ever was when my dad […]

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Giving Thanks

November 26, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

It’s Thanksgiving in the states. I think about things I’m thankful for quite a bit (because I’m a big sap like that), but I don’t think I’ve ever made a list off the top of my head of the things I’m thankful for when it comes to writing. So here goes: I’m thankful for my […]

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The Patience of an Oyster

November 19, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

A good friend used to manage a music store. A regular customer was looking for a second job and applied for a position at the store. On the  application, where one could list various skills and traits, this person wrote this and nothing more: “I have the patience of an oyster.” I’ve been told that […]

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The Sunday Night Ache

November 8, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Sunday nights get to me. I love having a weekend to see the people I love, and I love having a weekend to write! Sunday night signals a return to the 5/7ths of the week I have to work. When it comes to jobs, I have a good one. I’ve turned down offers making almost […]

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Looking Back

November 5, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

There are times I look back on my writing progress in recent years and feel like I haven’t done enough. I can come up with excuses; some of them are even valid: I spent a couple years caring for my big sister before she died from cancer in 2003. I’ve spent most of my recent […]

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Odd Jobs Help Writing

November 2, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 4 Comments

You probably spend the day working someplace where you wouldn’t be if you made a living writing full time. I’ve worked at my current job (editing and formatting airplane manuals) for almost five years. I like my job as much as I can like a day job. It’s the longest job I’ve ever held, but […]

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The Best Thing About Halloween

October 31, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 4 Comments

My wife knew my writing before she knew me. She was an artist working for a small independent comic book publisher in 1992. I was writing for the company. She read a couple scripts I wrote that were being developed, and she loved my writing. Being the spouse of a writer can be a very […]

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Thank You

October 28, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 2 Comments

Thank you to everybody who’s been reading The Juggling Writer. It really means a lot to me. Thank you to those who have subscribed to this blog, and thank you to those who have commented to entries. If you haven’t subscribed, it’s as easy as clicking here or on the RSS feed icon in the […]

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Coffee and Tea

October 27, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

I wonder how many great books would have never been written had we never discovered what to do with tea leaves and coffee beans…

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The Business of English

October 4, 2009 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

The American Scholar has a great article about the decline of English studies in colleges in its autumn issue. The article shows that while there’s been a decline in people studying English [and other liberal arts classes], there has been a significant rise in students studying business. – English: from 7.6 percent of the majors […]

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