Posted Apr 12 2010 in Miscellany
Funny. I’d been waiting for this envelope to arrive for months. When I arrived home this evening to find it, I couldn’t open it. The little voice in my head, you know, the Anti-Muse? She’s sitting back on her chaise, frothy umbrella drink in hand, regarding me over the tops of half-glasses, while a tiny […]
Read More...Posted Apr 7 2010 in Miscellany
I love reading ‘master the craft’ books and find they inspire me whenever I am blocked. I have a library full of them (see earlier post on Hooked! by Les Edgerton). I’m currently reading Donald Maass’s Writing the Breakout Novel. In it, Maass devotes page after page to raising the stakes, asking us to ask […]
Read More...Posted Mar 28 2010 in Miscellany
Nearly eighteen years ago, I fell in love. Blind, complete, awe-inspiring, breathless love. In May of 1992, I met my newborn son and life began for me… everything up until that moment was just a prelude. In the years that have passed since his birth, I’ve run the emotional gamut. Up-all-night exhaustion when he had […]
Read More...Posted Mar 25 2010 in Miscellany
I love reading books devoted to improving our mastery of the craft. King’s On Writing, Maass’ The Fire in Fiction… every time I read advice from a seasoned veteran, I’m inspired to greater things that are (I hope) evident in my writing. I’m just finishing Hooked, by Les Edgerton. It’s a book devoted to writing […]
Read More...Posted Mar 24 2010 in Miscellany
New opening scene for Send: God must have been bullied as a kid. Only a supreme being with a deep appreciation for irony would put me, a former bully, front row to a varsity football player built like some Cro-Magnon neanderthal about to pummel a skinny freshman. I searched the empty parking lot. I had […]
Read More...Posted Mar 14 2010
Where do writers find ideas? Some wait for inspiration to strike, praying for their muse. Others seem to find ideas around every corner, juggling multiple works in progress at once. Consider TV series writers, who churn out script after script every week. Where do they find their ideas? Law & Order writers rip their ideas […]
Read More...Posted Feb 25 2010
I hate outlining. I mean, I HATE it like I hate root canal and vegetables. I envy all those seat-of-their-pants writers who can take a premise from mere spark to finished draft without so much as a single index card, post-it note, or character chart but sadly, that is NOT me. Though I despise outlining, […]
Read More...Posted Feb 18 2010 in Miscellany
I have started querying “Send” and heard back from one agent so far, who said Send is an adult romance and needs to be longer. I’m so thrilled I got feedback instead of form rejections. But I’m so embarrassed that my research was incomplete. I didn’t realize YA meant no older than 18 and still […]
Read More...Posted Feb 15 2010 in Miscellany
About two years ago, I finished a romance called “Border Lines” and thought it could be the first in a series. I spent the weekend outlining a sequel and this morning, penned the first two chapters in what I’m tentatively calling “Head Lines”. I love starting new projects. I love finishing them even more, but […]
Read More...Posted Feb 14 2010 in Miscellany
Ahh. The revisions on Send are done… at least, for this round. I’m finally happy with it. I like the balance struck between the protagonist and antagonist – both slightly insane, though the former’s is from guilt and the latter’s is from grief. Nothing on earth tops the sense of accomplishment I feel when I […]
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