Writing on a Budget: The Cost of Self-Promotion
Self-promotion is a full-time job.
Writing on a Budget: How I Became a Budget Whisperer
I polish my pieces? When will I research target markets? How much can I spend on submission fees while respecting my other goals? Those questions are like gas in my tank: they tell me how far I can go.
Writing On a Budget: Budgeting Emotions
What we can do to budget our emotions is to experience joy in its fullest whenever it steps into view.
Writing On a Budget: Poem for Mature Women Contemplating Independence
Know that working weeks can exceed 80 hours
Writing On a Budget: When Writing is Your Business
We are part of a larger engine which moves sums of money, large and small, around our communities.
Writing On a Budget: Artists Do Not Work in Isolation
By Lisbeth Coiman How do you grieve for a homeland that no longer exists? Uprising / Alzamiento, my upcoming bilingual collection with Finishing Line Press, is my answer to that question. It’s a vehicle to process the pain of watching the land of my birth transform into something for which I don’t even have a …
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Writing on a Budget: Candles & Sage
Get your candles and howl to the moon if you need, but write down alternative goals for this year.
Writing on a Budget: On Our Watch
The nation is swinging in the pendulum of cold war era ideologies, accusing each other of communist and imperialist while funeral homes run out of space for the bodies waiting for burial.
Writing on a Budget: Writing Alone Together
This is not the time to judge ourselves for selfish attempts of survival. Not all selfish acts are altruistic, but true altruism is in itself a selfish act, especially when in doing so, we reach for the nearest hand to survive with us. Selfishness knows no moral… It turns good when a selfish act benefits those around us.
Writing on a Budget: Immigrants, Community, and Allyship
My message also spells Allyship. Don’t play politics with us. Don’t use our lighter skin to seed hate or create divisiveness.