Archive for October, 2006

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The Writer As Chameleon

Because don’t we all want to be thought of as reptiles?
Bear with me.
Writers hear a lot about writing “to the market”. What does that mean? To the best of my knowledge, it means studying the trends, the best-sellers, what’s “hot” now, and trying to nudge our writing toward it. If that means that [...]

The Price of Being Published

So you’ve sold a book. It’s all champagne, roses, and good times, right? Soon the money will start to roll in, and life will be one big fabulous party as you step onto the sidewalk of fame. If you’ve actually been published–whether in an epub or NY–you know the reality.
Getting your name and book out [...]

Writing on the road

Hello from the road!
I’m writing from somewhere between Tennessee and Utah, which is where I’m moving to for my new job. This should be a fairly short post, I won’t bore you with the details of a reeeeeeally long raod trip, but it occurred to me that a lot of people have jobs or extended [...]

I Took The Plunge

Call me all kinds of crazy but I jumped in the fire with several other ladies on this wonderful blog and I*m going to do NaNoWriMo. If you don*t know what that stands for, it*s National Novel Writing Month. It*s the month every year where hundreds (maybe even thousands - I don*t know) all pledge [...]

Stress…

Yesterday Lori poked me in messenger with a rather hilarious question: What should I blog about today? The question itself isn’t funny, it was that she was asking me! Me, the queen of ‘omg it’s friday–what am I going to say?!’
I asked her what she does in her books when she can’t think of what [...]

When Good Books Go Bad

So I’m hard at work on Saving Grace (not!), and I think I’ve finally reached the point in my writer’s life that I can admit I might need help. Valium, prozac, something. See, I’m bored. And a bored writer is a scary writer. Case in point.
Meet Rosco P. Coltrane.

Yes. The gator. The brothers in [...]

I’m a hugger, how does that make you feel?

I realized something about myself. I’m a hugger. I hug people. I never used to. I didn’t grow up in an overly affectionate, hugging all the time type of family. But somewhere in high school and college where I was embedded in choir and drama programs, I became a hugger. Because that’s the type of [...]

Writer Friends

How important is it to have writer friends, or friends who are in the business of publishing?
To me? Very.
My writer friends are what helps me over the hump of every book. And believe me, there is a hump. Or a slump. Call it whatever you want, it’s there. That point where you’re writing and [...]

The emotional aspect of writing

It’s been a week since I finished my latest novella. And honestly, until this morning, I was in a funk I couldn’t break out of. I mean, I should have been dancing on the ceiling in my excitement. Instead, it was hard for me to sit upright. I still can’t open the file to do [...]

Tomorrow…I have to write

We are our own worst critics, don’t you think? In that case, wow! Am I a slacker lately or what? I’m trying to take a little break here. I turned in two new stories a couple of weeks ago and I always need some down time after I do that. The thing is what [...]

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