Just a quick note that I haven’t forgotten any of you. I got four packets out to agents this week. Finishing up final rewrites on the last 5 chapters, then will be ready to send to the last agent, and then I’ll be back online and you’ll begin seeing some changes. Thanks for hanging in there with me!
Dear family, friends, readers, and fellow writers — I know I have been a ghost on here for a while, and it probably seems like I’ve dropped off the earth. The truth is I’m expending all my energy outside of the day job trying to complete the rewrite of my novel to get it to a place where I feel justified sending it to the agents who requested it. Chapters […]
Happy Sunday, everyone. I’ve been away to recuperate, renew, and write–mostly the former, as I had some work done “under the hood”, so to speak. In case anyone is wondering…Percocet does not inspire creativity. Even if it did, brain-hand coordination is way off. For a while there, writing the simplest thing made a mess that even spellcheck could not decipher. That said, I’m better now. I’ve made a lot of […]
I recently changed the position of my desk in the office so that it is up against the wall facing my 5-foot-wide window. It was partly a defensive move. I have a lot of work to do in the coming couple of months, and I want to be able to use my desk to do it, which means giving the cats another option for sitting or sprawling, within direct view […]
Where are all the mothers of the politicians we have elected? We need them to knock some sense into their boys and girls. I know. You’re going “Huh?” But on May 5th, there was an article about a Minnesota legislator who publicly called Neil Gaiman a “pencil-necked little weasel”. Neil Gaiman’s response on his blog was great, but the topper of the story was that the legislator’s mother, who was […]
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