#whenshallyouwriteifnotnow

[diannepearcefuckingwrites]

NEW HEADER

Ahhh, yes, the new Devil’s Party header, here now too. What’s going on with me these days? Well, if you follow this rambling blog you know we moved house for the daughter to go to art school, and we’ve resettled, and that I have stopped doing the adjunct thing as part of that, simply because it involves too much driving for Los Angeles, too much driving in general, and too much driving to be…

[current-words-publishing]

DPP OPENS BUTTON FACTORY

DPP OPENS BUTTON FACTORY

A long time ago now Dianne opened her house to about 15 strangers who showed up for the first meeting of a workshop she wanted to have because she needed community in order to have the stamina to keep working on the lonely business of writing a book. At the time she was living in a little town called Milton. She has since moved, and, after 7 years of opening her front door twice a month to a…

[diannepearcefuckingwrites]

AND I QUOTE... THE QUOTATION

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Recently I noticed something disturbing with the students I have been working with in a writing center, and that is a spate of assignments from their teachers that ask them to fill out a grid form with QUOTES from their sources. *sigh* C’mon people, who is proofreading these things? Quote is a verb, as in TO QUOTE QUOTATION is a noun, as in this is a QUOTATION from John Lennon, “All you need…