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Bloggers at Work

by Judy Schwartz Haley

Step into my office.

This is where I do the very important work of Mommy Blogging. I know. You want to be like me when you grow up, don’t you?

I even have an intern.

Let me tell you, for an unpaid intern she’s quite expensive and high maintenance. She expects a meal, [...]

There is no great writing, only great re-writing

by Judy Schwartz Haley

I don’t know how many times I heard the above quote at the Write on the Sound writers’ conference last weekend, but it was definitely something I needed to hear. I write, and I write, and then I sit and don’t write because I think I can’t write. What I don’t do is re-write.

I [...]

Book Review: Writer Mama: how to raise a writing career alongside your kids

by Judy Schwartz Haley

Have you ever thought about making a living as a writer? That thought has been a constant companion of mine for the past 25 years. Yes, 25 years, and it was just about exactly one year ago that I actually started doing something about it.

Now with a little one on the way, I wondered [...]

Time to Clean out the Flickr Pool

by Judy Schwartz Haley

037, originally uploaded by coffeejitters.

Ok, well this is just a little bit ridiculous. I’ve really got to clean up my flickr pool. I moved to this site because of the tags and sets and categories and now that I’ve got 1944 images uploaded, the vast majority are untagged, unsetted (I just made [...]