Comments on: Back to the land http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/ Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:10:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Michelle Goodman http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-44 Michelle Goodman Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:19 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-44 TBH, if it makes you feel any better, this was my first residency and I'm in my late 30s and kidless, single. So maybe being unattached wouldn't have mattered? I've also been dithering on the low-res decision since I was 30, ha. TBH, if it makes you feel any better, this was my first residency and I’m in my late 30s and kidless, single. So maybe being unattached wouldn’t have mattered? I’ve also been dithering on the low-res decision since I was 30, ha.

]]> By: Tiredbuthappy http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-43 Tiredbuthappy Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:43:42 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-43 How cool to hear about the fellowship ap process from the other side. Now I just gotta wait til my kid is old enough to be left with his dad for weeks at a time, and then I am all over those writer's retreat fellowship applications. Note to self: Next time, wait til late 30s, not late 20s, to have a kid. Spend additional 10 years getting that low-residency MFA and applying for every fellowship that has the word "fiction" in it. How cool to hear about the fellowship ap process from the other side.

Now I just gotta wait til my kid is old enough to be left with his dad for weeks at a time, and then I am all over those writer’s retreat fellowship applications.

Note to self: Next time, wait til late 30s, not late 20s, to have a kid. Spend additional 10 years getting that low-residency MFA and applying for every fellowship that has the word “fiction” in it.

]]> By: Michelle Goodman http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-31 Michelle Goodman Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:42:49 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-31 are we each other's biggest blog fans? how wonderfully creepy/supportive that would be! next step: we sit in the front row at one another's seattle book readings and ask a million well-thought-out and decidedly unstalker-like questions, ha. good luck to your friend who applied to HB. i hope she gets in. are we each other’s biggest blog fans? how wonderfully creepy/supportive that would be! next step: we sit in the front row at one another’s seattle book readings and ask a million well-thought-out and decidedly unstalker-like questions, ha. good luck to your friend who applied to HB. i hope she gets in.

]]> By: Janna Cawrse http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-30 Janna Cawrse Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:45:01 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2006/10/22/back-to-the-land/#comment-30 Looks like we're trading comments on our simultaneously nascent blogs...AND I noticed you're on the writergrrls list, which means you're in Seattle of all places. Now ain't that the darndest! So, am I allowed to make a plug for my friend who applied to Hedgebrook? No, I guess that would be unprofessional. But I agree that making people fall in love with you is part of the gig with writing. Thanks for saying it so well. Looks like we’re trading comments on our simultaneously nascent blogs…AND I noticed you’re on the writergrrls list, which means you’re in Seattle of all places. Now ain’t that the darndest! So, am I allowed to make a plug for my friend who applied to Hedgebrook? No, I guess that would be unprofessional. But I agree that making people fall in love with you is part of the gig with writing. Thanks for saying it so well.

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