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Jan.15.2009
So there is this lovely quote by Tennessee Williams: "There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship."
Indeed, Mr. Williams, the phase in which one is...
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Dec.23.2008
My wife will tell you that I am not very good at waiting. She's right (yes, dear, again)! It is difficult to finish something and just let it be done.
During the past few weeks I have been under the gun to write short stories. It's a quota thing. The publisher wanted a collection of...
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Dec.23.2008
This site came along at a timely moment. When my publishers told me they’d created this site for me, I’d already been thinking a lot about the public image of the writer because of a seminar I taught on literary images of the writer. On the first day of class I brought in a coffee-table, photo...
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Dec.21.2008
My older sister taught me to read when I was just three or four years old, and that’s when I became enthralled with storytelling. I don’t clearly remember a time in my life when I wasn’t dreaming up stories, creating backgrounds and characters from my over-active imagination, coveting new pens and...
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Dec.16.2008
1: You don’t mind that you are probably destined for a life of poverty.
2: Roget’s International Thesaurus is your favorite bedside book.
3. You revise your kids’ absentee notes for voice, wit, and narrative arch.
4. You are blistering away on something brilliant, when the smoke alarm goes off in...
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Dec.10.2008
There is a quote attributed to Hemingway that I cannot verify, but it sounds like something he would believe, if not actually say and it goes something like this:
"Some writers were born to help another write a single sentence."
And it is true. As writers we not only help each other to...
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Dec.08.2008
This may seem strange to some, but I’ve discovered an effective writing partner in my parrot. Here’s the situation. She sits on a perch beside me as I write, and gives me little prompts, using a squeak or a giggle or a funny little growl that’s all her own, and this keeps my mind focused and the...
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Dec.06.2008
The other day I likened the experience of finishing a first draft of a novel to postpartum depression. Today, I find myself, if not yet pregnant, at least trying to get pregnant again.
It is time to put my most recent story aside. I'll come back to it periodically over the next year or so and...
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Dec.02.2008
The Writers' Group blog features four women sharing how they are creating their unique literary lives.
Lynne Griffin, Amy MacKinnon, Lisa Marnell and Hannah Roveto talk about writing, editing, agents, editors, conferences, marketing, grammar--in short, anything and everything having to do with...
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Nov.19.2008
Having just joined Red Room, I'm hoping to get to know lots of good writers and authors. I don't have much to say except I've finished my first novel, SWEET REVENGE, a young adult coming of age story, and am hoping to find an agent and editor sometime this winter.
I am also working on a second...
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