Dawn Colclasure

About Dawn Colclasure

Dawn Colclasure, who also writes as Dana Mitchells, edits and publishes the Burning the Midnight Oil Book Zine, which is a product of her book: BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How we Survive as Writing Parents (Booklocker.com, Inc., http://www.booklocker.com/books/1743.html ). She is also a contributing writer to the newspaper SIGNews and a staff writer for the Web site, The Shadowlands. She’s been published both on and off the Web, in magazines such as Mothering and American Fitness, and Web sites such as Absolute Write, Writing Etc. and Writing World. Visit her on the Web at http://dmcwriter.tripod.com/.

DMCWriter@mail2desert.com

The Gifts of Being a Writing Parent

You have a deadline. Your work is due within hours, your contact keeps giving you the runaround and your e-mail account suddenly crashes. You’re ready to dive out the window of a highrise because you’re this close to losing your next...
Date Posted: February 13, 2006