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Building My Brand and Begging for Help!

February 24, 2023 By Julie Lomoe 9 Comments

I’ve made a New Year’s resolution for 2023: this is the year I focus on building my brand, getting my writing and art out to a wider audience and turning a profit, in hopes of making what remains of my golden years a little more golden. But how do I go about it? That’s the… [Read More]

Want to be a guest blogger for The Creative Crone? Here’s what you need to know

September 22, 2017 By Julie Lomoe Leave a Comment

Want to be a guest blogger for The Creative Crone? Here’s what you need to know

Autumn arrived at 4:02 PM today, and I’m kicking this website into high gear. Please read on. GUIDELINES FOR GUEST BLOGGERS If you’re a published author with thoughts to share about your creative process or the ways you’ve found to break through the blocks that keep you from writing, I invite you to contribute to… [Read More]

Onward and Upward with NaNoWriMo

November 15, 2016 By Julie Lomoe 2 Comments

Onward and Upward with NaNoWriMo

It’s Tuesday, November 15, 2016. November is half over, and so is NaNoWriMo. Once again it’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’ve vowed to write 50,000 words by November 30. So far, I’ve written just over 10,000, and the jazzy graph of my statistics on the NaNo website predicts that at the rate I’m going,… [Read More]

Summer was a bummer, but I’m back

September 23, 2010 By webmaster Leave a Comment

Summer was a bummer, but I’m back

It’s the first full day of autumn, an auspicious day for new beginnings, and for better or worse, I’m back on my blog, after a leave of absence that lasted virtually all summer. I’ve been mired in a deep depression that stole over me last May, robbing me of my motivation and self-confidence, convincing me… [Read More]

Venting negative thoughts in writing – is it always therapeutic?

July 7, 2010 By webmaster Leave a Comment

Venting negative thoughts in writing – is it always therapeutic?

Commenting on my “Slump-A-Dump” poem in the last post, Bob Sanchez praised my quasi-rap rhyming and characterized the piece as “healthy venting.” He got me thinking – how healthy is using your writing as a way of venting negative thoughts? Can it be counterproductive? I’m afraid that sometimes the answer is yes. This morning I… [Read More]

Slump-A-Dump: Rapping my way through a creative block

June 30, 2010 By webmaster Leave a Comment

Slump-A-Dump: Rapping my way through a creative block

Writing as everyday spiritual practice was the topic of one of my recent blog posts, but writing mindfully and staying in the present moment is a lot more difficult than it might seem. Since I’ve been feeling creatively blocked lately, I decided to follow my own advice, switch genres and write a poem about my… [Read More]

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Julie Lomoe brings a wealth of mental health and home health care experience to her mystery novels, Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders and Eldercide.

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