Turned in the rough draft of the play on time. I also met a deadline for a grant that I learned about only two days before. What will the results be? One result is that I now know I can do more than I think I can in two days. Another is I now have […]
I’m two days from deadline. I have to finish a rough draft of a new sixty-minute play and send it off in two days. I’ve been working on it since I got the assignment, but it is not finished. It’s close to being finished. I wanted to finish it today and two days to tweak […]
I participated in the bi-annual Literary Lesbians Reading event in Portland, Oregon yesterday afternoon. Portland was having a rare day of heavy wet snow, but we had a good turnout anyway. I was happy to see many of my Portland friends and new acquaintances, and I loved reading my poetry aloud. Reading one’s work aloud […]
I’ve resigned from my column writing on ROAR (I wrote for a year, having committed to six months), which has now gone on hiatus for a few months anyway. I’m writing daily on my new play. I have a deadline of Feb 28 for a sixty-minute play to be developed with Scripps Ranch Theatre here […]
Last week I wrote about my first acceptance of the year. So happy! Today I will share with you my first rejection of the year. As soon as I look up to see what it was, because I’ve already forgotten it. Well, actually, I can’t find it. If I remember what it was, I’ll get […]
I’m still in shock this morning over the email I received yesterday afternoon. I’ve been selected by Scripps Ranch Theatre to participate in development of new play! I submitted an idea to them in response to their annual call, and now I have to deliver. A first draft of a new 60-minute one-act play is […]
Time for reflection. Did we achieve our goals for 2017? Do we have goals for #2018? How are we doing? Are we productive? Are we good humans? What does the future hold, and how does our past predict that? One of my goals for 2017 was to write an essay a week. I joined Vanessa […]
I not only belong to the group Women Who Submit, I lead a chapter of WWS in El Cajon, California, where I live. Women Who Submit is a group that was created to empower women writers to submit their work for publication. My group began in January of this year, and meets monthly. Like all […]
Originally posted on Bitter Gertrude:
During Thanksgiving, I was having a conversation with a very liberal family member. He was adamant that he supported and believed women. Then he immediately went on to tell me that women are exaggerating about sexual harassment. We had had this conversation before. I had sent him links with hard…
As I’ve reported here, I get fewer acceptances and publications than I do rejections. That’s fine. It happens to be true for virtually every writer. You write, you submit your work, and once in a while it gets published. Otherwise, you get no response or a rejection. This morning I (along with nearly 1500 others) […]
Red Crested Author Sandra de Helen 