Tag: The Good Daughters

  • I am grass

    In gearing up for the long journey I’ll be taking with The Good Daughters, I have been reading up on agents, how to find them, what they do, etc. Apparently many literary agents blog. I find this strange, for some reason, but I suppose they are people just like anyone else. That’s the rumor, anyhow.…

  • I is not a cop-out

    I FINISHED ANOTHER SHORT STORY!! YAAAAHHH!!! Now I have to revise. -_- — In general, I don’t do well with things that are hyped up. Like, god forbid I take part in a trend, right? So I refuse and resist beyond all reason (just ask Angie) and I deny myself the wonder of things like…

  • Keeping it real

    Paulo Coelho has released another of his books online for free: The Pilgrimage. This is a limited time offer, but I still think it’s fantastic and everyone should take advantage. I certainly am! (A free book? What more incentive do I need?) You could call Coelho a phase for me right now. You could also…

  • Seize the… night?

    Every day is a chance to make your dreams come true. The thought occurred to me the other day, and I believe it. So I should be practicing it. I did send pages 1-50 of The Good Daughters to Wilkes University’s James Jones First Novel Fellowship (contest). We’ll see how that goes… In the meantime,…

  • The End

    Yesterday at 11:20 pm, I accomplished my most important goal for 2007: I finished the first draft of my first novel, The Good Daughters. It’s an amazing feeling to have finished even the first draft! Now my goals for 2008 are to revise The Good Daughters and send it out for publishing, and to write…