Facing The Blank Canvas: Have the Self Confidence to Tell Your Story
Originally published in Women Writers, Women's Books, June 7, 2023 https://booksbywomen.org/facing-the-blank-canvas-have-the-self-confide...
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J Hopkins
- Jul 18
Two Sentence Styles You Might Be Overusing, by Jude Hopkins, 7/18/23
Are you inadvertently boring your readers because of your reliance on mainly two sentence styles? Those styles are the compound sentence...
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J Hopkins
- Jun 17
Imagination and Mountains, by Jude Hopkins, 6/17/23
In addition to writing my debut novel and several essays, I have always loved writing poetry. Perhaps my favorite poem from among those I...
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J Hopkins
- Feb 3
Are You Reading To Become a Better Writer? by Jude Hopkins, 2/3/23
Photo by Victoria Rodriguez from Pexels One of the most compelling articles I read last year was titled “on the inability to create...
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J Hopkins
- Sep 11, 2022
Perfect Style: Whether She's Icing a Cupcake or Writing a Sentencing Plea, by Jude Hopkins, 9/11/22
Let’s face it: Martha Stewart makes perfect cupcakes. But that’s not the only thing she’s good at. Until it lost its news value, Martha...
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J Hopkins
- Aug 29, 2022
Is Your Writing As Nuanced as the Colors of a Pigeon’s Feathers? By Jude Hopkins, August 29, 2022
In my last blog, I mentioned “too much” girls, ones who were too loud, too this, too that. And I saluted them for their passion, their...
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J Hopkins
- Aug 12, 2022
My Book, My Cover, My Gosh—It’s Real!, August 12, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
When you’re a writer, the most wonderful feeling is getting your manuscript accepted by a publisher and seeing it take shape as a...
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J Hopkins
- Jul 16, 2022
What are Patterns For? July 16, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
In the children’s story “The Runaway Flying Horse,” a carousel horse tires of the restrictive Merry-Go-Round, longing for the freedom...
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J Hopkins
- Jun 30, 2022
Say "Yes Yes Yes" to the Creative Person Within You, June 30, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
What I love about Kaylin Haught’s poem above, “God says yes to me,” is the message of assurance it gives to girls who question...
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J Hopkins
- Jun 29, 2022
Music for Aches and Angst: Healing YouTube Instrumentals for Women, June 29, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
—Ethereal drone music to make you believe you’re wandering around an exoplanet that, unlike the one you’re on, requires no dusting,...
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J Hopkins
- Jun 1, 2022
“A Ghost of a Chance,” June 2, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Have you ever been ghosted? I don’t mean have you ever come face to face with a vanishing figure in an abandoned Victorian mansion after...
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J Hopkins
- May 23, 2022
The Heart of the Matter, May 23, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
When I read about young people today beset by mental illness in these challenging times, I am so very concerned for them. Certainly,...
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J Hopkins
- May 10, 2022
What I’ve Learned from My Modern Love Rejections, May 10, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
A tongue-in-cheek rationalization for my Modern Love rejections, leading me to believe I'm neither modern nor loved!...
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J Hopkins
- May 4, 2022
Let Us Now Praise Ex-Boyfriends, May 4, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
I’m here to praise ex-boyfriends. To continue the ironic analogy to the title of James Agee’s book about Depression-era tenant farmers,...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 23, 2022
The Day I Met Paul McCartney (spaghetti is involved), April 23, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
“Paul McCartney is downstairs and will do a quick meet-and-greet with photos, if you hurry.” That’s what I heard one day when I worked...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 20, 2022
Pipe Dream, April 20, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Here's a remembrance from a time I spent a "big birthday" at a Beverly Hills spa, a day in which I was mostly broke and brokenhearted. I...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 13, 2022
What's Your Writing Style?, April 13, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
What defines your writing style? I rarely revert to Wikipedia for the best definitions, but I do like the simplicity of this: “Beyond the...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 10, 2022
“I Will Always Love You" - Maybe Not, April 10, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
If you’ve ever sent out query letters to agents, you know the pain you feel when you get rejection letters back. It’s similar to the pain...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 6, 2022
Persistence — April 6, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Persistence. Quite a word. The website etymonline.com tells us that the word originated in the 1540s from the French and Latin, meaning...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 1, 2022
Reading My Poems for National Poetry Month, April 1, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
The wonderful editors at Gyroscope Review gave their published poets a chance to read three poems that had been published anywhere, not...
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