Archive for November, 2009
Writer Takes Notebook Everywhere
There comes a time in every writer’s life when awareness begins to creep in. Have so many years gone by already? We examine our warranties only to find they expired around the 40th birthday. Maintenance is now part of reality. Sometimes maintenance isn’t enough and a part needs to be replaced, rebuilt, or done without.
“What [...]
Bad Writer. BAD
I’ve learned a few things in the time I’ve been writing with intention. One of those things is to write every day no matter what. This is especially important to me in the middle of anything longer than a short story.
I didn’t write for three days. Of course it was harder to get back into [...]
Composing a Novel but Losing a Mind
You know those old vaudeville jokes that start with “a funny thing happened on my way to…?” I have one, and it was a first time for me.
Just imagine a long day, evening meeting, too sleepy to type up what had been written that day. Probably sounds familiar, right? So I wrote about eleven pages [...]
The first 36 hours of a new novel
The photo here is a good image for what my MC will be facing in the next day or two. Is she ready? Am I?
I cannot express the joy I experience when I start a new novel. I thought perhaps it was just a personal thing, but I was told today that my whole demeanor [...]
