HeyJaredSimply Write w/Polly Campbell
Ideas and insights about the writing craft and crafting a writer's life from a career author.
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Simply Fun, September (opens the original)
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My Draft Is a Disaster, Now What? (opens the original)
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Go Time (opens the original)
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Simply Fun: Notebooks, Kin, Classes (opens the original)
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Fall is my favorite season—University of Oregon Football, store aisles loaded with school supplies, crisp mornings and sunny skies—what’s not to love? In honor of my favorite season, I’m starting Simply, Fun for the readers of Simply Write w/Polly and Polly Campbell Simply Said. Once a month, I’ll share a few of my favorite things, cool classes or worthwhile opportunities that I think you will enjoy, as well as a short book review, by Jen, What’s in the Desk, a popular feature from the Simply Wr
Using the In-Between-Time (opens the original)
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Back in the day, when telephones were stuck to the wall and had a loonnng, dangling cord, I would wait for it to ring about six weeks after I mailed in my query to a magazine editor. If it didn’t ring, I would pick up the headset and listen for the dial tone to make sure it was still working. If it didn’t ring, I would traipse across to the metal bank of mailboxes hoping not to see an envelope addressed to me, by me. That would mean my query was coming back, rejected.A call? That was usually a g
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