Finished the First Draft of My YA Novel!
20 years after the inception of my YA novel, I finished my first draft! Do I regret it taking that long?
Welcome to My Livingroom! Let’s Talk!
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I Am Third
A large proportion of 3rd place wins inspires me to reflect on making myself third priority.
The Writers’ Mill Volume 8 is Now Available on Amazon!
Journeys Through Chaos: an Anthology to Bring Us All Together, the Writers’ Mill Volume 8, is now available on Amazon.
Portland Book Festival Happening NOW–Online!
Catch the Book Festival from your own home–now!
What in the Blazes is Going On?
Smoke in the air southwest of Portland turns trees into flat silhouettes that pale with distance. Are you also enduring smoke and ashes where you live? Worse, must you evacuate your home? Do you fear for your livelihood or life?
Walking onto this Layne
Welcome to my resurrected website and my new blog! Writingthatsings.com has had several past lives on various servers. I trust this one will be the best ever. I hope you are well in these strange and troubled times and that … Continued
Website Officially Completed!
Since late April of this year, my web technician and I have been working hard at creating this website. Several incarnations of WritingThatSings.com have existed in the past. This one will hopefully be the best and final. I hope you … Continued
Contest Winners, the Portland Writers’ Mill
About The Writers’ Mill
The Writers’ Mill is an eclectic group of talented, creative, supportive and hard-working writers, editors and illustrators, who meet monthly at the Cedar Mill Community Library in Portland, Oregon. We are very grateful to the library staff for their continued support and promotion of our writing group, and we’re pleased that the library receives all proceeds from online sales of our anthologies.
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Other Writing Awards
AuthorsbyDesign.com, while still inline, was listed by Writer’s Digest magazine as one of the top 10 websites for writers. Its contests were among its many delightful assets. Kumoricon is an annual anime convention in Portland, Oregon. Robin attended Santa Ana College (now Rancho Santiago College) in Santa Ana, California, as a journalism major right out of high school.