Your Charmed Life

Your Charmed Life

Writing today …

posted by Victoria Moran

“A good style should show no signs of effort.  What is written should seem a happy accident.” ~W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938


I applied for The Writers Room, a writing space in NYC. It is iconic. The waiting list probably goes until after the end of the Mayan calendar.


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Allison

posted December 7, 2009 at 4:01 pm


Wow, now I feel so much better. And here I thought that only newbie freelancers like me struggle over finding a writing space away from husbands and household chores. Thanks, Victoria, I so needed to hear this, and good luck!



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Joan Mitchell

posted December 7, 2009 at 4:53 pm


Have you looked into Paragraph @ paragraph.com? A friend of mine had a writing space there for a couple of years and loved it. I don’t know about a waiting list.



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janice

posted December 10, 2009 at 11:46 am


Good luck!



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