Tag: The Good Daughters

  • The best writing

    From the essay “How to write your second novel or, if you want to make God laugh, show Him your outline” by Stephanie Kallos: … the best writing comes not from the part of you that writes an outline. The best writing comes from the part of you that feels, grieves, fails, flails, yearns, despairs,…

  • OMFG! Please vote for rate me!

    The next episode of Twenty-Somewhere will be posted later this week, when I’m done freaking out about this: Kristan, Thank you for participating in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. We received thousands of submissions and were impressed with the incredible talent and creativity demonstrated by participating authors this year. We are happy to inform you…

  • So much reading about writing that you might start to hate me

    “A Writing Woman” by Gail Godwin is a really excellent piece — almost more a story than an essay or an advice column. (This is the fourth and final of the Atlantic Monthly articles I mentioned, BUT then there is their whole archive of literary interviews, plus a few articles I found elsewhere. It never…

  • For the record

    Eat Drink Man Woman is a GREAT movie!! Very Asian, very cute, very real, very unexpected endings. I should keep it in mind for The Good Daughters revision… Aiya, that stupid revision is going to kill me.

  • Wait, what was I saying?

    Thanks to my new Netflix subscription (squee!!) I finally watched the movie version of THE KITE RUNNER this weekend, and I loved it. I thought everything (i.e., the controversial rape scene) was handled tastefully, the two young actors were fantastic, and the story was absolutely amazing. For the first half of the movie I nearly…