by Chris | Mar 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
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 get it. I found myself eating the same things, week...
by Chris | Mar 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
“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 Gail...
by Chris | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
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 Goodreads page (no new adds to my...
by Chris | Mar 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
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 with energy to...
by Chris | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
In his 90-Day Novel book Alan Watt advises not to revise anything, just write and write and write and worry about the editing later. But that’s not something I’ve ever done. I’m used to turning on the computer, looking at what I’ve written,...
by Chris | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
This past week marked the first week in which I started writing the new novel proper. (I’d been writing only notes during the first four weeks.) One of the advantages of writing a novel this fast, under deadline, is that the so-called scary blank screen...
