Mel's Notebook
Melanie ConklinWeekly fodder for creative living.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 426 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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What would happen at 100%?
My phone must have heard me talking about percentages this week because it served up this video from Miranda July talking about how she realized she wasn’t quite going all the way in her work. She was holding back, stopping short of the end...
In defense of the 94.7%
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This week, in case you missed it, the Ambassador for Young People’s Literature published a book on writing for children. In this book, he says that “94.7 percent of kids’ books are crud,” wh...
Imagine yourself as a raspberry bush
I recently relocated a huge black raspberry plant in my back yard. It was in the shade, and it needs sun. They can get heavy as they fruit, so I used some plant stakes to make an X-shaped support structure to hold up the canes. The plant is...
Why I trunked the first two books I wrote
And how that helped me find the story for my debut novel
I was a young mother with a toddler and an infant when I woke up with the idea for a book one morning. I’d minored in English Literature in college, but it had never occurred to me t...
Practice
“To practice art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” —Kurt Vonnegut
Practice is the practice. Not outcome. We value our failures because they are the path to solutions. Sometimes the failures are painf...
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Melanie Conklin is an award-winning author and designer. She writes about creativity.
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