New and Different
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Keeping Goals and Dreams In Front of You
I guess I’m getting a little sentimental, because I have a landmark birthday coming up, and it’s surprising me how impacted I am by it, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the future (as well as the past). For a writer, to look to the future means to evaluate where you are now and what you would like to be when you grow up. I guess I’m not grown up yet, because I’m still looking at a very long list of wishes and dreams and hopes and goals. I wonder sometimes what would happen if I finish this list. That’s a scary thought. During the last two years, I…
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What to do when you lose your editor . . .
So, this happened. About a month ago, I received a surprising email in the middle of an otherwise lackluster day. The email was a goodbye from my editor. I sat at the laptop and shook my head a little. She left? What the hell. She didn’t say anything a few days before when we’d talked about my new book, You Are the Divine Feminine. Now what? The company sent out an email, reassuring all of us who’d been working with her that everything would be fine, and that we’d be working with someone else for the rest of the project. I was happy to be re-assigned to work with my…
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Writing and Teaching
Good morning, and welcome! Sometimes we draw back the curtains on the artistic world, and it still seems glamorous, yet vague, to those who aren’t in the business of creating. It definitely can be mystifying, even to those of us who create, to describe that process to people who don’t live in our heads (I live in my head all the time — and I bet any amount of money you’re saying the same thing right now). I talked about my cross-country tour to promote my new novel, The Mourning Parade, last year, but that novel is doing its thing without me now (though I still love to talk about…
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Welcome!
Thanks for visiting the official website of author/editor/writing coach Dawn Reno Langley. A Fulbright scholar, Langley holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (The Union Institute and University), an MFA in Fiction (Vermont College), and is a writer published in every genre except screenplays. Learn about her new books, check out where she’ll be appearing, and hire her for upcoming projects!
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Hello world!
Every once in a while, I need to get away from home and work on my creative projects. One of my favorite places to write is the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. It seems the world could go by and this place would still exist (complete with its resident ghosts). I always feel the spirit of the other writers sitting on my shoulder, encouraging me to continue.