Shanan Haislip, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/shananhaislip/ Fri, 15 May 2015 08:07:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How to Tackle the Writing Wall https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-tackle-the-writing-wall/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-tackle-the-writing-wall/#respond Fri, 15 May 2015 07:51:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13404 My first encounter with the running menace known as “the wall” happened at 1:00am on a humid July night in Wakefield, Massachusetts. My sneakers were slapping sandy pavement littered with discarded paper cups. The taste of the twilight summer gnats thronging Lake Quannapowitt was still fresh between my teeth. In the sixth hour of the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-tackle-the-writing-wall/feed/ 0 13404 Stop Waiting to Measure Up: Write Now https://booksbywomen.org/stop-waiting-to-measure-up-write-now-by-shanan-haislip/ https://booksbywomen.org/stop-waiting-to-measure-up-write-now-by-shanan-haislip/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:39:49 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10864 Waiting to write because you don’t think you’ve lived enough is a terrible mistake. There was a five-year stretch in my early 20s when I did not write. If you’d asked me what I was up to, I would’ve said that I was waiting for life—big-L Life, interesting life—to happen. I actually remember scribbling this […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/stop-waiting-to-measure-up-write-now-by-shanan-haislip/feed/ 16 10864 Writing by Ear https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:00:11 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382 Shanan Haislip is a full-time business writer, essayist and webmaster. She makes some interesting points about the overlap between music and writing in this article. In the fourth grade, every kid, including me, wanted to play the saxophone. The day musical instruments were handed out, in the orchestra room at East Dover Elementary, all six […]

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