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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43
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writer, writing teacher, solo mom, survivor
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central PA
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http://anotherwritingmom.wordpress.com
Created
2017-07-20 18:16
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shapeshifter43
news
2017-12-13 15:13
2 out of 3 white women in Alabama will protect unborn but not born children
Last night, Democrat Doug Jones defeated accused serial pedophile Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate special election. It's beginning to look a lot like Resistance, eeeeeeverywhere you go... (^^^I stole that
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life
2017-12-12 20:53
Reminder to women and myself to forgive and be kind to ourselves and one another
Today I read Rebecca Solnit's essay "On women's work and the myth of the art monster" at Lit Hub, in which she defends art-making females against charges of selfishness. Today, in a private group
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funny
2017-12-11 19:37
Addicted to shopping...for my son
I wrote this post two years ago yesterday on my blog another writing mom (when my son was barely 3, and when I was mommy blogging instead of being bowled over by memoir!). The boy and the presents are
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advice
2017-12-08 18:12
Writers, should you compose on paper or screen? 3 ways to tell
Remember journals? Remember filling notebooks with drafts of poems and stories? Remember typing them all up when you were sure they were “finished”? Or do you still keep those journal and notebooks? For
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funny
2017-12-04 18:53
What's a very good weekend look like to you?
I had what I would call a very good weekend. Sometimes, when the weeks are so busy I spend more than one lunch break sobbing into my steering wheel or rage-vaping in the work bathroom (where there's a
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life
2017-12-01 18:20
On gratitude for my creative ability in a world that doesn't often value it
I don’t know about you, but as the end-of-year holidays approach, the largest and loudest feeling I feel is gratitude. The festive season and the longer nights make me cozy up to awareness of what I have,
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technology
2017-12-01 18:08
Write every day with these 6 apps
If you’re a tech-loving writer who composes on screen but hasn’t explored the wide world of writing apps, you might be missing out on some ways to majorly boost your productivity, motivation, and inspiration.
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life
2017-11-29 14:52
The 7,452nd way writing has saved my life
I might be prone to exaggeration, but only about the number 7,452, not about the fact that writing has saved me on numerous occasions. I was a lonely kid who got yelled at a lot, and who spent most of
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news
2017-11-21 15:04
Separating the art from the artist? Nope. Not anymore.
I'm a writer, and writers sometimes do shitty things, so the issue of whether or not we can separate the art from the artist is one that's been on my radar for some time. We, as a society, examine this
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writing
2017-11-20 16:15
My DIY mini writing retreat
On Friday, I took a vacation day and checked into a hotel to write. Go to a coffee shop, suggested more than one friend when I spent the better part of last month complaining about how being at home distracts
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life
2017-11-16 20:42
5 types of journals to keep
Why journal? To chart your progress, jot down ideas on the fly, list goals and challenges, record feelings, make lists, and so much more. Check out these five types of journals to keep: Personal Maybe
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writing
2017-11-16 20:25
100 memoirs project #4: Rise, and too much HGTV
In my few and precious windows of down time, when I’m not reading memoir, I’m watching HGTV. Tiny House Hunters. Fixer Upper. Property Brothers. Love It or List It. I love me some Love It or List It. I’m
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life
2017-11-15 16:24
When the universe reminds you your kid is just a kid
I've been struggling lately with my five-year-old son's impulsivity. When I was pregnant with Jax, his due date was early February. Ooo, an Aquarius, I thought. Except, inexplicably, he was born on Oct.
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news
2017-11-10 17:39
Abusers. are. EVERYWHERE.
Do you get it yet? Abusers and rapists are everywhere. They are the Heathcliff Huxtable family types who seem to be the picture of loving morality. They are your teen heartthrob crush. They are small-town
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advice
2017-11-10 14:39
How to make the "write" work space for you
My writing space is a deeply personal realm. I enter it to make art; and while I can technically write anywhere, my home base for writing is a sanctuary for my creativity. I firmly believe that the
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advice
2017-11-02 19:11
5 tips for sharing your writing for the first time
Some of the most difficult aspects of writing make themselves known after the first draft is on the page or screen: revising, cutting beloved passages that don’t advance a narrative or metaphor, choosing
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writing
2017-10-31 14:50
100 memoirs project #3: The book that made me want to visit Yemen (10 years ago)
I have the pleasure of working with five amazing women through the Center for Creative Writing, which I now direct, and one of them is prose writer and journalist Jennifer Steil. I’ve had her memoir The
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writing
2017-10-26 18:21
Writers of Steemit, want a discount on an online writing course?
I run the Center for Creative Writing, which offers five-week sessions of eight different online writing courses to help beginning and blocked writers find the wonder of the written word, practice showing
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news
2017-10-23 19:40
Guys, I'm gonna need you to stop #MeToo-ing
So #MeToo has been quite successful in raising awareness of rape culture. Our feeds have been saturated with stories by women about their sexual harassment and assaults, along with headline after headline
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writing
2017-10-23 15:17
5 reasons why word choice matters so much in good writing
Writing is one set of choices after another—about imagery, sound, what to include, what to leave out, who to name, who to kill off, where to give background info, when to let readers fill in the blanks
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