How much is too much?
I’ve been on a roll recently. The pub date for Ashes, Ashes is still 3 months away but since finishing final edits on it, I’ve given my agent 2 more revised/beta-okayed manuscripts and outlines for 3 or 4 other books. […]
the writing process
The Place of Still
Sometimes I feel like a leaf caught in the current. Kids, work, family, the phone, the internet. My yoga teacher told me you’re not a bird in the sky. You are the sky. Clouds drift across, in and out, don’t […]
WIP it!
Just finished the first draft of my new book after nightmare marathon session lasting until the wee hours of the morning. Jo don’t do late nights well. Yesterday I sent it to two of my betas and printed it out […]
Snow Days
I’m about 44,000 words into my new book and finally, after a few miserable weeks of slogging, am feeling pretty happy about the way the story is developing. It’s all starting to come together. The end is in sight. I […]
Practice does not make perfect…
…but who wants perfection as a writer anyway? Once you’ve attained perfection there’s nothing left to do. Plus, perfection is entirely subjective anyhow. But practice is definitely necessary. And being out of practice is definitely painful. Case in point I […]
Monday
Super busy these days trying to finish the first draft of my WIP. The guilt of taking off a couple of weeks over Christmas eats away at my soul. Yes, I am largely motivated by guilt. Aren’t you?! Anyway re. […]
The Boy With The Purple Hair
Yesterday the family and I took a little trip to Annapolis Royale on the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s a 1 and 1/2 hour drive straight across the mainland, through woodland and past signs warning drivers to look out […]
The Importance of Being Imogen Poots
Do any of you know who Imogen Poots is? She is a ravishing, doe-eyed gazelle of a British actress known mostly for being gorgeous and appearing in the movie 28 Weeks Later. Here she is: She got me thinking or […]
Booke the Seconde
Regarding the difficulty besetting a writer who must deliver a second book to her publisher. You may think that writers are spilling over with new stories all the time.That it is merely a matter of writing them down.Not so.I have […]
Writing the ‘wrong” way to find the right story
I’m sure that for many of you writers this is not a difficulty. Perhaps you are masters of the detailed outline. Perhaps the whole book appears to you in a wonderfully clear dream.Perhaps you are one of those people who […]