I’m leaving on a jet plane tomorrow. (I know, I know, I can’t help it–I have all these old songs playing in my head.) I’ll be in Nashville for the Loft Literary Day, which is on Saturday. I get to meet with students and sit and enjoy the lectures of other mentors. Usually I am […]
Wait, what? It is September 11, isn’t it a day of gloom and doom? Not anymore. There’s a movement afoot to make this day, the anniversary of one of the worst days in our nation’s history, into something positive. The idea is to focus on the humanitarian outpouring that followed the September 11th attacks, not […]
….you are never not thinking about your current project, at least somewhere in the dim recesses of your mind. When working on a novel or screenplay or other long project, you are always, always, always, aware that any free time could best be spent by working on it. You are constantly aware that everything in […]
Nina, the wonderful author of Darwin’s Paradox, and the blog The Alien Next Door, tagged me for a meme, on eight random facts about me. You really sure you want to go there? Well, alright. If you insist. Here goes: 1. I am the proud mother of the largest pug in the world. I’m not […]
Just found another L’Engle tribute from a fan like me. This one is worth checking out because she has links to the New York Times obit, which I couldn’t find yesterday, and a couple other stories. Check it out here.
One of my favorite authors of all time died today. Madeleine L’Engle died in a nursing home in Connecticut at age 88. She was best known, of course, for her book A Wrinkle in Time, which my sister and I read and re-read and read again as we were growing up. I read it to […]
I love when this happens. Here I’ve been up to my elbows in an assignment all day–all flippin’ day–worrying about neglecting semi-important things like grocery shopping, and really important things like my blog, when in pops this press release into my inbox. (Are there enough "ins" in that sentence for you?) And now my worries […]
Let me tell you right up front, I had no intention of making this series on critiquing into a series. But I kept talking to people about it, and getting great comments, and so here were are, suddenly on part four. Quel surprise! Crystal left a comment to Part Three about how much she hated […]
Some of you out there might have actual plans to write this weekend, unlike moi. Despite having a long list of writerly things to do, I have so instead, so far this weekend: been to Friday Happy Hour, spent three flippin’ hours at the new Ikea, watched two episodes of Big Love on demand, cleaned […]
I already wrote about being critiqued not once, but twice, (you can read the first two posts here and here.) But I had another thought about the whole process. Dying to hear it, aren’t you? Just what you’ve been desperate to read on this last official Saturday of summer? Here goes: It’s all about the […]
