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Cinthia Ritchie

Author of "Dolls Behaving Badly"

Tag: editing

Why I hired a beta reader

I originally wrote this  post for my blog but then realized that I needed a post for 49 Writers so submitted it there instead. Before I repost that, though, here’s the inside scoop. Last week, I hired a beta reader. I did this, as I do most things, rather impulsively. I was browsing through Twitter,… Read More Why I hired a beta reader

February 8, 2017 cinthiaritchie16 Comments

Third person or first person? Damned if I know.

A few days ago I went to the library, sat in the Alaska section with the first 100 pages of my novel rewrite, and got to work. It was a rainy and cloudy day, and I sat by a window that overlooks a park (the grass all smeary with duck poop), and as I sipped… Read More Third person or first person? Damned if I know.

July 18, 2015October 17, 2015 cinthiaritchie11 Comments

Wasting time instead of writing

I’ve discovered something that I’m really, really good at: Avoiding my writing. I can find almost anything to do other than write. Laundry! Dishes! Grocery shopping! Cleaning out the cat’s litter box! Lately I’ve been cooking. Granted, I’m not a very precise cook. It’s impossible for me to follow a recipe, my adolescent self kicks… Read More Wasting time instead of writing

April 22, 2015April 29, 2015 cinthiaritchie11 Comments

Skinny jeans, and skinny words

Today my sister and I hit the shopping centers to look for jeans. My sister is visiting from Philly. She wears smart clothes and expensive shoes and isn’t afraid of price tags or designer brands. She marched me through various departments, fingering material and commenting on cut and style, and within minutes my arms were piled high… Read More Skinny jeans, and skinny words

August 19, 2013 cinthiaritchie4 Comments

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Recent and upcoming publications

Running into Danger on an Alaskan Trail  in New York Times Magazine.

Sled dog love in Alaska Magazine

Crazy, I knew in Silver Birch Press

Anchorage–A Gift of Diversity, Alaska Dispatch News

“Ten Truths (and ten lies)” upcoming in Deaf Poets Society.

“Second to the last time,” “Beluga Point, Alaska” and “The Weatherwoman had a Boob Job” upcoming in Breath and Shadow.

“How She Lived” upcoming in Grayson Books Forgotten Women anthology

“Conversations before communion,” “Wild breaths / and this” and “Hanukkah in Seward, Alaska” upcoming in GNU journal.

Upon hearing that a writing friend had died in Anchorage Press

Destruction Bay, Yukon  in Poetic Medicine

Paperdolls in Clementine Unbound

Savages in Panoplyzine

Stuttering in Barking Sycamores

Portland in Barking Sycamores

Dead Things in Postcard Poetry and Prose

Fucking a Fisherman in Seward, Alaska in Damfino Press

Milk in 100 Words

Running Trails, Alaska in The Skinny Poetry Journal

Portland II in 101 Words

“Mary With PMS” in Into the Void

“Mary Poppins: The Third Show” and “I’m not you’re baby” in Theories of HER anthology

Join me on my Alaska running adventures at: Cinthia Runs Alaska

Sled dog races

Sled dog races

This past weekend we pulled on our boots and warm coats and ventured out to the Campbell Tract trails to watch the Fur Rondy World Championship Sled Dog Races. We walked back into the woods and stood at the side of the trail, no one else around. Everything so quiet; we could hear snow fall […]

Still running, after all this time

Still running, after all this time

Holy, holy, I haven’t posted here in forever. How did that happen? How did time get so far away from me? The good news is that I’m still running. I never stopped running; I simply stopped writing about running and I’m not sure why. Maybe I didn’t have anything to say. Maybe I had too […]

Creepy man pulls a knife on us on the Trail of Blue Ice

Creepy man pulls a knife on us on the Trail of Blue Ice

I know, I know: I need to get my Anchorage Runfest 49K race report up while the race is still fresh in my mind. But first, this. On Sunday, my sister (who was up visiting from Philly), my partner, the dog and I headed out for a short hike on the Trail of Blue Ice. […]

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