I decided a long time ago that I needed to get organized. Here’s how. (Hang onto your hats, dis about to get nerdy.)
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Living The Dream
I have this deep sense of living the dream. I am a writer in New York, meeting with people who care about my work. I mean, how fabulous is that?
Stop Being an Aspiring Writer
For some reason, I love reading self-help books when I travel. Whenever one of these get-your-shit-together kind of titles pops up I always hesitate to buy them because I don’t […]
7 Years of Blogging
This week marks 7 years of blogging! I can hardly believe it. Back when I started blogging, I was a grad student working on my first novel about an ostrich […]
Deciding Where to Put Chapter Breaks
With just a month to go before I finish what I expect will be the last draft of my novel, I’m starting to think about where to put my chapter […]
How to Write a Good Rejection, Says Me
I’ve been writing fiction for a number of years now, and I’ve sent a fair number of stories off to literary journals. Most, but not all, of those submissions have […]
Celebrate Milestones
Writing a novel takes a long time. As my teacher Mark Sarvas told me once, you have to celebrate milestones along the way, because if you wait to celebrate just […]