Writing Process | Writing Process
Oct.31.2010
Tomorrow I begin a month long novel writing frenzy. A friend of mine, knowing I needed a push to "just write," suggested I participate in National Novel Writing Month (www.nanowrimo.org). In May I signed up with great gusto. As the months passed, and the story I was working on at that...
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Oct.30.2010
I had to make an executive decision about my writing this week. As I’ve discussed here before, I switched from Word to Scrivener, and tried writing my 6th book in it. Things went well up to a point, but in the end I caved and went back to Word.
Then I went to Pages. Then back to...
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Oct.30.2010
Here in Jersey we are enjoying a true autumn--golden October days and nippy nights, with the occasional balmy surprise of a day that reaches into the 70s. Knowing that winter chill awaits only increases my yearning for one more day at the shore.
This past season I made more than my usual number...
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Oct.16.2010
What struck me about the day today?
That artists and writers spend a lot of time retrieving the tangible from a fuzzy nothingness, a place that's not visible to anyone but themselves. That they see what's there so vividly the act of creating is more one of pushing away the material from...
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Sep.23.2010
Just write
Write just
Justly write
Write justly
Just right
Rightly just
Write right
Right write
Just
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Sep.20.2010
We are our own worst critic. A common statement, but oh so true! I am harsh with myself. I tear my writing apart bit by bit. I judge myself harshly. I compare myself to others who, in my mind, are better, more talented, gifted. "How do they come up with these beautiful descriptions and...
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Sep.14.2010
Using vivid language as a writer means I have to overcome a strong urge to scream from the tree tops and throw branches. Instead, I have to sit down and think. That's the hard part about writing: Doing the screaming in written words, translating emotion exactly and precisely into descriptions...
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Sep.11.2010
The past couple of weeks I have buried myself in books - in more ways than one. I work in a school library and school is now in session. Part of my job is processing all the new books we receive. Not only am I surrounded by the books on the shelves calling out to me, "Read me!" But I am...
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Aug.30.2010
My friend Susan Campbell Bartoletti has a new book out: They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group.
You should buy it and read it. Five reviewing publications have given it stars (so far). Sue has written a fascinating account of her research trip to Arkansas to...
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Aug.29.2010
Bookavore, bookseller extraordinaire at WORD in Brooklyn (and my oldest kid) has weighed in with a resolution to remedy the mud-slinging that seems to be heating up between adult “literary fiction” authors and adult “genre fiction” authors. (You haven’t heard about the feud? Details here.) If...
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