Posted Jun 20 2010 in Miscellany
You’d better move away from me. A little farther… just a little farther. There’s been a black cloud over my head for the past month or so. I wouldn’t want you to get hit by the lightning bolt when it strikes. I’m not sure what, exactly, it is, or what I did wrong. Bad luck? […]
Read More...Posted Jun 14 2010
Those who follow me know I am serious about my chocolate. Saying, “Patty likes chocolate” is an understatement of profound proportion. It’s like saying, “The universe is big.” Duh. My predilection for chocolate goes much, much deeper than this… it’s not just an addiction. It’s an obsession. I plan my day around chocolate. I diet […]
Read More...Posted Jun 11 2010
I’ve noticed how so many of my fellow tweeters (twitterers) tweeple? ? in the writing community mention that the scenes they wrote earlier seem like garbage in the harsh light of day, like a one night stand, whose name you can’t remember, now drooling all over your pillow… ewww. Why does this happen, how do we […]
Read More...Posted Jun 5 2010 in Miscellany
A few weeks back, we opened our pool. Today, I got a phone call… not a phone call. The phone call. The one you hope you never get, but know someday, you will because it’s life. It’s death, actually. But nevertheless, part of life. My mother is dying. Cancer, stage 4, which means the little […]
Read More...Posted Jun 3 2010 in Miscellany
An exchange about voice this evening on Twitter, as well a post on Cynthia Reese’s blog, got me thinking about… well, my voice. What, exactly, is voice? It’s the sum total of many choices we make as writers. What words to use, how we string them together. It’s the tone we set for a story, […]
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