Tania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is currently writing a book based on her courses. She is looking to connect with other women bloggers, instructors of blogging and like-minded creatives. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshops, Tania is co-founding blogger and instructor at Mother, Writer, Mentor where she teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Poetry of Fatherhood. She has blogged since 2007 at Feral Mom, Feral Writer. Her latest poetry projects involve photo poem montages and poetry sculpture.
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. Liz Phair The simple joy and logic of posting interviews on a blog needs little explanation. Or WriterViews as they should be called–at least within the literary blogging community, since more often than not, interviews are completed via email exchange. […]
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours… Black Elk, Holy man of the Oglala Sioux 1836-1950 (from Black Elk Speaks) Let’s say you’ve blogged merrily along so far, only to run headlong into blogger block. Pull out the calendar and find the nearest holiday. Since we humans cycle […]
Visit Tarot for Two, a blog I started in 2015 with writer Mary Allen. Here’s an excerpt from our blog’s overview: We are two writers who have been throwing the cards for each other for over twenty years. Because we now live in separate regions of the country – Mary in Iowa and Tania in […]
Writing exercises bookend the making of a three-dimensional mask that serves a dual purpose: to provide a layer of distance between the private self and the public blogger entering or re-entering the blogosphere (somewhat like a narrator functions in works of fiction), and/or at the opposite end of the spectrum, to propel us past prior […]
The other night, as my daughter and I grappled with her geography homework, we scanned through aerial photos of the sinuous path waterways make as they meander across the Earth. I couldn’t help but connect the winding pattern to writing. While the shortest distance between two points may be a straight line (obviously you do […]
You’ve settled on a succinct but rousing blog title with decent “click pull”—at least to attract your tribe. Now that your visitor has arrived, your next opportunity to woo lies in your subtitle which should appear in the head-mast of your blog’s home page. Here’s a quick decent industry specific post on subtitles, written by […]