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Health Progress!
At the start of the summer, I posted how daily social group interaction of an in person course this summer was a big transition for me...

Sylvia Woodham
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Sylvia and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Editors
I have been blogging about horrific experiences in the world of "para publishing" freelancers The most recent examples might be the most...

Sylvia Woodham
Aug 22, 20237 min read
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Brenda Hsueh: Diverse Creatives
I will start by being direct: GO SEE ELEMENTAL IN THE THEATER. Now I'll tell you why. Brenda is an amazing human, and Brenda more than...

Sylvia Woodham
Jul 8, 20232 min read
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The Racketeers - Publishing
I have cracked the secret behind all of my posts observing what's wrong, why minority writers complain about running into BS. Someone has...

Sylvia Woodham
Jul 4, 20236 min read
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Coming Out - of Isolation
Officially, the pandemic/ lockdown phase ended for us a year and a half ago, but that doesn't mean that isolation hasn't lingered on for...

Sylvia Woodham
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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On Cutting Toxic Ties
Sounds like other people have had some rough life patches recently. There were some situations that exploded with a literary agency that...

Sylvia Woodham
May 15, 20238 min read
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Breaking Patterns
This is a personal journal entry about some upsetting and difficult dynamics I've faced in the past few weeks, as part of trying to...

Sylvia Woodham
May 2, 20239 min read
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On Mental Health in dealing with Writing freelancers
I am going to speak out about these experiences, because they cause burnout, and I feel populations who are behaving this way are a...

Sylvia Woodham
Apr 5, 20234 min read
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Formality of Voice vs. Expertise
This is a specific continuation around my Non-fiction proposal journey. First, there appears to be some disconnect between finding the...

Sylvia Woodham
Mar 31, 20239 min read
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The Non-Fiction Contrast
I sent out a spring newsletter this week to welcome new followers and let them know about updates in my writing. One of the themes of...

Sylvia Woodham
Mar 24, 20236 min read
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"Maerchen: Prince of Gold and Greed" has a home
My next short story will be published on Danse MacCabre in May: https://dansemacabreonline.wixsite.com/neudm/sylvia-woodham-150 In the...

Sylvia Woodham
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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A Conversation with AI
Following the flooding of Clarkesworld Submissions by AI generated stories, questions have abounded about the usage of AI for writing and...

Sylvia Woodham
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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Heroines Anthology Review
I will be giving a shout out to a few people in this post. To start at the beginning, friend Jill Witty first drew my attention to the...

Sylvia Woodham
Feb 12, 20233 min read
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On Dodos and Publishing Choices
One of my first group novel chapter sessions during the end of the first lockdown I met Matthias, and loved his use of the German...

Sylvia Woodham
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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German Goddess Holle. Not a Fairy
I've posted about European indigenous beliefs being appropropriated by the writing and publishing industry, badly, speaking generally....

Sylvia Woodham
Jan 29, 20233 min read
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On Mental Health
Now I can write about another topic that was happening over the holidays. In my new job, there was a diversity and disability training...

Sylvia Woodham
Jan 13, 20233 min read
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Dealing with Racism as a Family
This is a post that is difficult to write, and I tend to stay away from details about my life or family history. However I've seen some...

Sylvia Woodham
Jan 13, 20234 min read
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Dating as a Writer AND Thoughts on Marriage
This week there were two themes going on in my life, so it's another week where there will be two different sets of content for blog...

Sylvia Woodham
Dec 17, 20226 min read
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Artists of my Obsession
My first zoom date moving in a direction I could invest in a relationship involved a lot of art discussion. She was in Beijing starting...

Sylvia Woodham
Dec 11, 20221 min read
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Trip, Recovery, New Relationship, and Advent.
It's brutal times trying to stay up to date and keep followers these days! The three day trip of trains planes and automobiles with the...

Sylvia Woodham
Dec 11, 20224 min read
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