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What are Your Spots of Time? by Jude Hopkins, 4/6/25
I remember the day my father took me and my sister to a shady area in the woods close to a creek. We were going fishing with the...
J Hopkins
Apr 6
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Be Generous With Your "Likes," by Jude Hopkins, 2/21/25
Want to feel empowered? Choose not to “like” a friend’s social media post. Oh, I know. That sounds like sour grapes. Someone didn’t get...
J Hopkins
Feb 21
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“Like” it or Not, I’m Still Going to Promote my Book, by Jude Hopkins, 4/14/24
If you’re an author published by an independent publisher, you are responsible for most of your book’s promotion and marketing. With the...
J Hopkins
Apr 14, 2024
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What Most Aspiring Book Writers Really Want is Hubbell's Girl, by Jude Hopkins, 3/24/24
I’ve changed my mind about people’s heartfelt desire to write the book within them. They’ll never do it. And I need to quit encouraging...
J Hopkins
Mar 24, 2024
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Read First Chapter of My Novel "Babe in the Woods," by Jude Hopkins, 11/4/23
“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen...
J Hopkins
Nov 4, 2023
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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...
J Hopkins
Jul 18, 2023
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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...
J Hopkins
Jun 17, 2023
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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...
J Hopkins
Feb 3, 2023
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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...
J Hopkins
Sep 11, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Aug 29, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Aug 12, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Jul 16, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Jun 30, 2022
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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,...
J Hopkins
Jun 29, 2022
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“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...
J Hopkins
Jun 1, 2022
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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,...
J Hopkins
May 23, 2022
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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!...
J Hopkins
May 10, 2022
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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,...
J Hopkins
May 4, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Apr 23, 2022
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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...
J Hopkins
Apr 20, 2022
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