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A Lesson in Patience

A Lesson in Patience

I’ve been thinking about patience lately, as three projects that I finished over three years ago have finally found a pathway to publication. For the record, I’ve been in Muscatine for three years. Before that, we lived in a tiny

Misty May 18, 2018 fragments and musings, publications, thoughts on process No Comments Read more

The life of the independent scholar

The life of the independent scholar

With the publication of Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth (hurray and huzzah! she’s here!) and the acceptance of a paper for the book at the Illinois Medieval Association meeting in February 2018, I’m feeling more like

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The Pleasures of Flash Fiction

The Pleasures of Flash Fiction

I’ve had luck with placing very short pieces lately. Fiction Attic accepted a flash fiction piece, “River Bottom,” the day after I submitted it, and it appeared on the site one day later. The Cerurove included my piece “Happiness” in

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Go, litel book

Go, litel book

“Go, litel book,” Chaucer writes at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, and sends his work off into the world in hopes that it will be read, understood, and well-received, will communicate his intentions and be forgiven his failures. This

Misty October 4, 2017 fragments and musings, publications, thoughts on process No Comments Read more

On taking encouragement where you find it

On taking encouragement where you find it

Shortly after hearing that my collection THE NECESSARIES was not advancing to the final round for the Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman, sponsored by Carolina Wren Press, I also learned that my poem was not among the winners

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Spring publications

Spring publications

Inspired by a set of workshops given by John Peragine at the Midwest Writing Center, I’ve been venturing into the world of freelance writing. And I’m delighted to say that one of my novice efforts has just appeared in the

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