The Midwife's Confession | The Midwife's Confession
May.10.2010
I finished The Midwife’s Confession yesterday and John and I are going to see Wicked this evening to celebrate. Yeah! The last month of writing a book is sheer torture; there seems to be no way around it. Every time, I tell myself I’ll figure out a way to prevent that last month from being such a...
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May.07.2010
I’ve completed draft four of The Midwife’s Confession (well except for the epilogue), so it’s time to see how it looks on Wordle! Wordle helps me see what words I’ve overused. Of course the character names (and there are a lot of them!) are all over the place. Noelle, front and center, is the...
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May.03.2010
The Midwife’s Confession is due a week from tomorrow, so if I blog this week at all, it will not be with anything profound! Right now I’m writing drafts three and four at the same time. Hard to explain, but that’s what I’m doing. (Keeper and Jet are helping me organize the mess of paper on the...
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Mar.24.2010
Six weeks from the deadline for The Midwife’s Confession, I’m doing some deep thinking about whose head I’m in. One of the most important things a writer must decide when starting a novel is point-of-view. Will the story be told from an ominiscient perspective in which the narrator knows everything...
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Mar.15.2010
I’m a month and a half away from deadline on my twentieth book, The Midwife’s Confession, and I’ve had some requests to tell you a bit about it. Those of you who’ve read my blog for at least a couple of years might remember this picture. I love it and have it on my desktop to keep me focused as I...
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Feb.09.2010
As I get closer to the final form my novel will take, I like to use this Three-Act chart, based on my friend Alexandra Sokoloff’s book, Screenwriting Tips for Authors. The top picture was taken as I neared the end of writing my upcoming June book, The Lies We Told. Notice how neat and organized and...
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Jan.17.2010
One of the worst crimes a writer can commit is to be predictable in his or her storyline and characters. This holds true even in genre fiction, where a certain formula is generally followed: In a romance, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl reunite forever. In a mystery, a crime occurs,...
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Oct.28.2009
Point of View.
Every author has to figure out which character (or characters) is telling the story, and if she’s telling it alone, and if she’s telling it in first person or third (or sometimes from an omniscient perspective), and if she’s telling it in past tense or present. So many decisions! As...
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Nov.24.2008
In my last post, I was celebrating. My editor had emailed me with the news that The Midwife's Confession was a go. My celebration was premature, I'm afraid.
A couple of posts before that one, I wrote about some of the reasons a synopsis might not be accepted, remember that? One of the reasons was...
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Nov.21.2008
Yesterday I opened an email from my editor and learned her response to the synopsis:
I have two words for you--Love. It.
Those of you who've followed my synopsis-writing journey know how overjoyed I am to get this news! The book is tentatively titled The Midwife's Confession (thus the picture....
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