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  • LitPark Interview: Time and Newsweek Editorial Cartoonist talks about stamina, focus, and declining newspaper readers

    January 7, 2009

    • Today, over at LitPark, I'm talking with Jimmy Margulies, one of the last remaining political cartoonists with a steady newspaper gig. We're talking about the long road to a successful career in the arts, and some lessons he's learned along the way.   And in case you missed Monday's Question of the Month, there are some really moving responses about perseverance required of writers and artists. ...
  • Reflections: Post Nanowrimo

    November 30, 2008

    • After being behind the ENTIRE month, I finished last night, almost 24 hours early. Final count - 50,224. This might have been both the most difficult and the easiest Nano I've done so far (this was number 4). Because of a huge amount of work in October, all of which I wanted to have out of the way and off the desk, symbolically and literally, November 1st, I was overwhelmed and undermotivated ...