Category: About Me
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The Learning Years…
What time in your life you would declare the learning years? Personally, this present moment is deeply rooted in gaining new skills. Granted, without formal schooling and real lessons, these years would be muddled confusion. Decades of formal classes, managing life in general and reading shelves of books that educated, entertained and inspired, have prepared…
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Learning to Learn…
School days. I couldn’t wait for them to end. No books. No tests. No schedule. No teachers. Did I really think I could just coast through life on the limited knowledge gained in high school and college? Me living in the world today, stuck in that no-more-learning mindset would be a disaster. Can you imagine?…
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Check out my twitter pitch today!
Hi Blog followers, subscribers and checker-inners! I have posted two pitches for the twitter competition today. Check it out here and retweet if you want!
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Floundering Founder…
Lifelong learning can be hard. And frustrating. Best to remain in kindergarten where there are snacks and nap time and the hardest thing you have to do is tie your shoes. My dad was a lifelong learner; he died at 95 with 1500 books waiting on his kindle. Like him, I itch to learn so…
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Big Girl Pants…
I hate these baggy, grown-up Big Girl Pants. I’d rather be lounging in my jammies. Wrapped in well-worn flannel can make me feel like the status quo is where it’s at, where I want to be. But then why the heck have I been writing and rewriting a novel for years? Jammie pants will not…
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And the Winner is…
Raise your hand if you have written a novel. Put it down if it has been published. Congratulations, you have done the work of writing, rewriting, editing, revising, pitching, promoting, suffering rejections (or worse, crickets) and/or followed the steps to self-publishing. Those of you with your hand still in the air, raise it higher if…
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Happy Fun Time…
I’m finally realizing that schedules per se, don’t work for me. Nor do goals that line out how many chapters or scenes or pages or even words I need to write each day to get where I want to go. What is working, though, is honoring my inner child, my creative self, my deepest desire,…
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Thank You…
Monday we talked about building a change through small increments. As this year comes to a close, I celebrate the reboot of this ELAN Blog as PattyMayeuxBlog, gaining traction one like, follow or subscribe at a time. While posting these weekly quick thoughts and encouragements is a small thing, my hope is that these pages…
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The Piddly Diddlies…
I recently flipped my schedule upside down to honor writing time. My previous modus operandi was to clear the endless slate of daily chores first. Did you catch the word endless? Those piddly diddlies never go away, so writing time never came. Now, I follow a practice taught by author Ellen Sussman (book review here). Writing…
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More on Yes and No…
This week I received another rejection (the worst kind, a form letter). Someone in a position of power, or a keeper of the gate, deemed my work to be unworthy. But that’s not true. It is worthy. Worth my time and passion and focus. Worthy of sharing with the wide world, adding beauty or humor…
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