Month: May 2010

  • Internal juggle

    Another reason I may not stick with Writerly Wednesdays: They make it too obvious when I go awhile without blogging! (In case y’all hadn’t noticed, I aim for a MWF schedule. So if I skipped today and didn’t blog until Mon — or even Tues, since Mon is a holiday! — then you’d all be…

  • Writerly Wednesday

    By popular request, I will use the alliterative title, but I make no promises about the regularity of this feature! Amazon announced the 6 finalists (3 general fiction, 3 Young Adult fiction) for their 2009-2010 Breakthrough Novel Awards. Go check out the excerpts (which you can download free in PDF format) and vote! Support writers!…

  • Truth: I haven’t felt this frustrated with myself in quite a while. As I mentioned last week, today marks 1 month since the Major Publisher told me they would be interested in my ideas for revising Twenty-Somewhere. They didn’t give me a deadline, but I thought I could hammer out my ideas in 1-3 weeks.…

  • Me versus me

    My dog is at work with me today, and yes, it pretty much is the best thing ever. :) Right now Riley is pooped from running around our 3-story building and greeting everyone. And sniffing every square centimeter of carpet for crumbs. (He’s a very, very good Crumb Finder.) I’ll take him on another social…

  • Writerly things

    T.S. Bazelli is starting a new series of “Author Aerobics” on Mondays and has already produced one really compelling story as a result: “The Metal Girl.” Lee Future/Mike Cook is not the first to compare writing to running, but I think his angle in “Running Through Writing’s Solar System” is a little different: To many, authors are a…