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One of the strategies I employed while revising You Are Here was to read the entire book aloud to myself.  (I didn’t do this for The Love Thing, and I regret it.)  If anything sounded unnatural to my ears, I … Continue reading →

While I wait to hear from the publisher about my own book, I now have time to give a shout-out to my friend and fellow indie author Eileen Granfors, whose novel, Sydney’s Story, has been published in paperback this past week.  Over … Continue reading →

Last Friday I went to my neighbor Clive Matson’s house for his monthly Poetry Saloon.  (I’ve written about Clive before; he’s a poet and creative writing teacher whose website is here.)  In past months I’d gone with samples from “You … Continue reading →

In the end, there wasn’t much suspense:  the 100th day of my 100-day novel writing challenge came and went on April 25, even though I managed to finish the project on April 15 — on day 90.  I want to thank … Continue reading →

It’s a holy mess and I don’t remember half of what I’ve written.  But it’s a 102,000 words long, it has characters I love, and most of all, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.  I am very happy … Continue reading →

I’ve now completed ten weeks, or 70 days, on my journey to write a novel draft.  I had given myself 100 days to write it, but since I’ve managed to write without missing a day since I started the journey … Continue reading →

Before I met my partner I was never good at writing lists.  When I lived alone I’d try to remember what I needed to buy at the supermarket, and if I forgot something, I’d just run to the supermarket and … Continue reading →

“I don’t know if I ever mentioned this,” Gail Collins cheekily wrote in her New York Times op-ed column yesterday, “but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car.” I’ve been reading … Continue reading →

For the past few weeks my writing day has started not with actually writing, but with my usual rounds on the Internet:  checking my Facebook page (no new messages), checking out my Twitter feed (no new followers), checking out my … Continue reading →

A couple of weekends ago I attended the 2012 San Francisco Writer’s Conference, where among a crowd of talented writers I had the pleasure of meeting author, blogger, and Top 500 Amazon reviewer Eileen Granfors.  An enthusiastic writer and reader … Continue reading →