Over the last week, I’ve been sitting beside my goldfish pond a lot. Partly, it’s because I’ve been brainstorming. Partly, it’s because I’m waiting for the monster to reappear.It’s amazing how mysterious a self-contained pond with no access to the outside world can...
On Monday, Vicki Tremper posted a link to an article by LibbaBray that I really, really needed to read this week. If a rock star like Libba Bray can struggle so much with a book – and a sequel, at that – and if she finds outlining strategies and worksheets as...
I’ve been following Susan Flett Swiderski’s blog, I Think; Therefore I Yam, for a long time, and Sue was one of the early participants in my First Impressions series, sharing her first page of HOT FLASHES AND COLD LEMONADE, which she has now published. Sue...
Some writers talk about setting word count goals because they have a hard time sitting down and committing to writing. Me, I have a hard time staying away.In the last week of June, I finished revisions for THE EIGHTH DAY #1, and it went into copy-editing. About a week...
Recently on Facebook, I saw a link to the Parenting Blog at the New York Times where one of the most famous “absentee Moms” in the world was interviewed: The Mom from The Cat in the Hat. The interview starts out with the most obvious questions: “Where wereyou???” and...