Today I jumped back into the beginning of my novel. I should say, for those of you who follow the blog, that I’ve actually not been working on my fiction […]
Writing
You Are Not Your URL
I was talking with a friend last week about good resources for writers. I directed her toward my usual go-to sites, like Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and for those […]
Overflowing Shelves
Yesterday I cleaned off my bedside table of all the books that have stacked up there over the last six months. I usually finish books in bed, late at night, […]
In Defense of Unnecessary Words
Have you ever read a book that was so well written that you were sick of it by the time you were half way through it? As I mentioned in […]
On Style
I feel like Lewis and Clark would have felt if they had not kept a journal, but rather tried to remember everything to write it down once they got home. […]
Vacation Reading
I’ve been in Spain this past week, on vacation with the family. We stayed at a hotel with a big fat pool. Despite the rich history of the area, the […]
All Work And No Fiction…
Makes April one cranky writer. Last week I complained that I only wrote six pages on my novel. This week I can’t even say that I did that. I’m busting […]