by Cheryl Pallant | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog, writing
Whether you write in a journal or write with the intention of publishing your work, it’s important to know your motivation for writing. I ask this of every client I coach. Why write? Why engage in an activity that is inherently challenging and could be replaced by an...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog, writing
This post originally appeared on This Land on October 24, 2014. On October 25, 1914, banker John Allyn Smith and schoolteacher Martha Little welcomed their first of two sons, John Allyn Smith Jr.—now known to the world as John Berryman. Berryman was born in...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog, writing
w w wwwithtt tThis post originally appeared on This Land on March 3, 2015. I moved off campus my junior year at Long Island University into a second-floor room of a home in the cheerful village of Sea Cliff, one square mile of artists, Victorian architecture, and a...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog, writing
This excerpt of my travel memoir Ginseng Tango originally appeared in This Land on August 25, 2015. You can learn more about Ginseng Tango on its book page. I check my email before going to bed and find a message from my ex-husband with “Sad News” in the...
by Cheryl Pallant | Apr 14, 2017 | writing
RVA Litcrawl was birthed in a period of distraction. I was busy writing my book on somatics due in a few months and paused from tapping at the keyboard. Out of habit, I checked out Facebook. I learned that friends in Denver were taking part in a litcrawl. What fun! A...
by Cheryl Pallant | Mar 23, 2016 | writing
At this year’s Los Angeles AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs), Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Leslie Samuels Entsminger, Jan Freeman, Renee Olander, and myself participated in a panel called Literary Foremothers and Filling the Gaps. We wanted to honor...
