Marcia Meier's Blog

• Don't Give Up

  November 2, 2009

  • Trying to get published can be an extraordinarily frustrating experience. The key is to not get discouraged. Too often writers get a few rejection slips and give up. That is not the way to get published! You have to keep at it. Send out those lit mag submissions. Send out your latest poem. Send your book proposal to yet another agent or publisher. In my latest book, the most cogent advice offered ...
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• Why Newspapers Are Increasingly Irrelevant

  July 7, 2009

  • (Reposted from The Huffington Post)Michael Jackson died in the early afternoon on Thursday, June 25. I remember because my daughter texted the news to me from her summer college class about 2:45, when she was ostensibly listening to her professor. That’s not so remarkable. What is remarkable is that the next morning’s Los Angeles Times headline across the top of the front page screamed, ...
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• Writing - Bliss!

  October 31, 2008

  • It's overcast and chilly - perfect weather for writing. Here we are again, my writing buddies and I, on the Central California coast in our favorite spot - lovely Avila Beach). This time I splurged and got an ocean-front room. What a difference it makes to be able to look out on the ocean (rather mean-looking today, given the weather). Inspiration, for me at least, is often dependent on ...
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• Another Great SBWC

  June 29, 2008

  • Well, another Santa Barbara Writers Conference has come and gone, and a lot of happy, exhausted writers have traveled back home, inspired, motivated and ready to tackle another year of writing and, it is hoped, publication. I get such pleasure from watching the writers who come for the conference each year go home with new skills and inspiration to keep at the craft.I, too, am changed each year, ...
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• Seducing the Muse (with apologies to Erica Jong)

  April 25, 2008

  • I've been in a small seaside town in Central California the past week with my writing group. We have come here every six months since October 2006. Of the 12 of us, only eight could be here this week. Getting away with the express purpose of writing is becoming sacrosanct with us. This week I have gotten more writing done than at any other time. The Muse finally surfaced two days ago. Since then, ...
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