by Laura Rink | May 16, 2018 | Daily Life, Writing
Check out my guest blog at BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog: Real Life vs. the Failed Writing Retreat...
by Laura Rink | Sep 3, 2017 | Memoir, Writing
In the third grade, I read The Little House in the Big Woods series of books. You could write about your own life—what a revelation! I wanted to do that. But also, a disappointment—my life wasn’t as interesting as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s. Mine was a normal life. Two...
by Laura Rink | Jul 17, 2016 | Daily Life, Writing
The worst part of my day, on the days I run errands, is in the morning when I’m standing in the grocery store watching the clerk ring up my purchases and she asks, “What are you going to do today?” A part of me finds that question an invasion of my privacy, while at...
by Laura Rink | Jun 3, 2016 | Memoir, Writing
Check out my first guest blog: http://www.redwheelbarrowwriters.com/blog/writing-for-personal-insight/
by Laura Rink | May 1, 2016 | Daily Life, Writing
I exercise every day. Every day some form of stretching and strengthening, and a hike or a walk must be done. Why such dedication? Because I’m in training, not for a marathon but for a sit-a-thon. And as we are all learning these days, sitting is not for wimps....
by Laura Rink | Nov 27, 2015 | Writing
Every time I start to write a new piece—a story, a novel, a blog post—I get a sinking feeling in my gut, my chest constricts and a sigh slips through my lips. The glorious piece of writing floating in my mind sprawls on the page like a pig wallowing in the mud. A big...
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