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The Writing Journey: Your Guide to Writing During a Global Pandemic

April 4, 2020 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear while under quarantine. (And he didn’t even have a typewriter back then, much less a computer. He had to write everything by hand!) So, you should have no trouble getting that book done, right? (You know–the one you’ve been talking about forever.) You’re stuck at home anyway, so why not […]

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The Writing Journey: My New Office!

March 15, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 4 Comments

I have a dirty little secret to share. For years, my office was in my bedroom. While there are many things I love about my house, one thing I don’t love is that it’s only two bedrooms. Sure, they are HUGE bedrooms (our house has a very open floor plan with tons of windows and […]

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The Writing Journey: What Will People Say?

February 25, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

If you’ve read some of my earlier Writing Journey’s, you know that my fiction writing was a bit of a dirty secret. Which meant I didn’t share the fact I wrote fiction, much less the books themselves, with a lot of people. One of the most interesting things that happened once I started publishing my […]

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The Writing Journey: Adventures in Cooking

January 20, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Every now and then it’s important to venture out of the writing cave and do some other creative pursuit. In this case, I thought I’d try cooking. So, before I go any further, let me explain that I’m not the cook in my household. My hubby is. Except for days he has to work late. […]

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The Writing Journey: A Day In The Life

December 28, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer Writing a novel (at least for me) is never a straight line. There are lots of false starts, going backwards, […]

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The Writing Journey: 7 Things I’m Celebrating from 2018

December 7, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 1 Comment

One of the rituals I do in December is to take some time to pause and reflect on the past year before putting a plan together for the new one. Why do I do that? Because as a society, we don’t celebrate our successes nearly enough. We’re all so very busy. We cross off one […]

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The Writing Journey: Sometimes You Have to Regroup (plus, an update on “This Happened to Jessica”)

October 5, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 5 Comments

In the book “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamont, there’s a funny scene about writers accepting criticism. I’m paraphrasing here, but she describes how she has friends who read drafts of her books and then call her to give her feedback. She talks about how great it is that they’ve taken the time to thoughtfully […]

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The Writing Journey: Breakdown #2

August 24, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 4 Comments

It was September, 2014. My mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer in 2012, was in Intensive Care in the hospital. “Come now,” my father had said on the phone. So, of course, I did. And, that was the beginning of my week in ICU hell. My mother was on a breathing tube, so she […]

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Writing on the Road

August 3, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

For years, my husband and I have taken what I call a “Summer Adventure.” Basically, that entails packing up the car and the dog (or dogs) and driving from Arizona to Wisconsin and back (along with some “side” trips) to see family. Since Mr. PW and I both grew up in Wisconsin (albeit different areas), […]

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The Writing Journey: Breakdown #1

July 13, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

It was the year 2012.  Looking back on it now, I can see exactly what happened. It was the perfect storm: I continuously ignored the whispers from my soul to get my books out into the world, and my anxiety and worry spun out of control. I’m a six on the Enneagram scale. If you’re […]

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