Writing on the train this morning, remembering that I wrote my first book mostly on Metronorth while I commuted to work in the city, and most of my second book, too. Both of the those books started in long hand in notebooks. I just heard from a friend who reminded me of something I said [ ]
Okay, for all of you still with me, all of you chipping away it every day or as often as possible, it s time to finish the fucker. I m hip deep in revisions and setting August 1 as my goal. I ve also cleared my calendar for June and July (besides ye olde day job) and will [ ]
I think I m heading into the homestretch with a new manuscript. I qualify that because you never know when you might be derailed, when your confidence goes south or a story line collapses like a junky s vein. I try to plug away for at least an hour a day, more when I can, to keep [ ]
Dear Readers of this Blog: Look who the fuck has a new book out next month! The sublime member of our community of misfits and malcontents, Mademoiselle Bobbi French. This is a gorgeous novel about grief, regret and loss. And that crazy pickled herring known as hope. Please think about pre-ordering here and supporting our [ ]
Dear Readers of the Blog: It s been so long that I almost forgot how to sign in. I miss you! I apologize! Anyone out there in the writing trenches still around? As you may know, I ve drifted over to TikTok where I ve been reading snippets of my diaries from my twenties. I ve found a big [ ]
Dear Readers of this blog: Look what I just saw in Publisher s Marketplace: our very own Donna Everhart has inked a THREE book deal: Author of THE SAINTS OF SWALLOW HILL and the forthcoming WOMEN OF A PROMISCUOUS NATURE Donna Everhart‘s next three novels, featuring strong women exploring their complicated histories and set against a southern landscape, to Kensington, [ ]
I am writing from the Toronto International Airport returning from TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, where my daughter s first screenplay, Poetic License, premiered in a Maude Apatow directorial debut. How can I explain this out of body experience? I know I have birth to her, I know I taught her how to read, I [ ]
End of summer writing report. I have 300 pages of a new novel. About 30 of them worth keeping. LOL. I ve been through two rounds of index cards, four outlines, countless drafts. It finally got into my thick head that I had to introduce the parallel storyline in the second chapter instead of 50 pages [ ]
I wish I could say that I m making progress with the monster, but I ve been working in fits and starts. There are two significant plot points that need to be resolved. And I m stymied. I keep hacking away at it and making it worse, sort of like when I cut my own bangs in the [ ]
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