When it goes so right…
Currently I am revising a manuscript for the fourth time. I mean, fourth as in major revisions. I’m not counting all the other revisions I do in the course of hammering out a story. But this time each revision has […]
the writing process
Writing with children
I think these are true memories. But after all I am a writer, and I tend to embellish or rewrite. (Always revisioning!) However, it is such a strong recollection, visual and visceral, that I am sure it is real. I […]
Giving Up Control
No man is an island. No one does it all on their own. I fear I am a freak. A control freak. I like to have all ten of my fingers in the pie. For me, this is the hardest […]
The Waiting Place
Do you know the book, Oh The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss? I picked it up at a garage sale years ago with a bunch of other kid lit classics- The Cat in the Hat, Goodnight Moon, The Snowy […]
On Being a Writer and Identity
I am a writer. (This is an attempt to claim it for my own. Or reclaim it). Nope. I don’t think I have fully embraced it as a job description. Not even now, with three books published. When, besides looking […]
Getting Paid
The headline should in fact read: Equating getting paid sporadically for doing something you love which leaves you no time to go out and get a ‘real’ job which would pay you regularly. I’ve struggled with this for years and […]
Coming from a Dark Place
I think of myself as a happy person. When I first started writing as a young child, my stories were full of magic and possibility, and my first completed published book, a middle-grade, was made up largely of fantasy and […]
Tough versus tender
So my friend and I were hanging out the other day in my bright sunroom, gazing through the windows at tight buds and green shoots and the wind-tossed sea, and drinking ginger tea, and speaking of ghastly things (because she […]
My Perfect Agent
So since I moaned and griped about my agent search on this blog, it seems only right that I should make a formal announcement here as well. It took 7 months but I have finally found my perfect agent. She […]
On Dating and Querying
So I thought I had a pretty thick skin these days, ’cause you know, I’ve experienced quite a few agent rejections in the last coupla months… But apparently, getting rejected by ‘boys’ (and by boys I mean ‘men’ sometimes) is […]