I first met Alisa Bowman when she interviewed me for an article about children with peanut allergies earlier this year. Since then, I have had the pleasure of becoming friendly with her through our various social networking connections and of reading more and more of her work. A former magazine editor and newspaper reporter, Alisa [...]
Archive for November, 2010
A Quick Word About Criticism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agent, baby grand novel, criticism, feedback on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t planned on writing a blog post today, considering I’ve fallen behind schedule for my Baby Grand revisions, but something interesting happened so I thought I’d share. One of the comments made by my agent when discussing the first draft of my novel was to make a certain scene in the manuscript “grittier.” Now, [...]
Writing Tip #8
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Business Services, Communications, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Word count, writing, Writing and Editing, Zadie Smith on November 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Stick your manuscript in a drawer for a while before you edit. Or, as novelist Zadie Smith suggests, leave a “decent” space of time between writing something and editing it. As many of you complete your manuscripts for NaNoWriMo, you will be on a tremendous high as you reach the finish line. (And you should [...]
Thank You
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As a writer, I have so much to be thankful for this year. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog, which since I started it in March had been a driving force in getting Baby Grand written and edited and has allowed me to meet such wonderful people — novelists, poets, editors, [...]
127 Hours
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 127 Hours, baby grand novel, Twitter on November 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
127 hours. That’s what I have — give or take an hour — to finish revising Baby Grand. About five days of massaging and laying and fixing and praying. I posted on Twitter the other day that I had actually read through an entire chapter of my novel without changing a single word. Yippee! It [...]
Writing Tip #7
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Arts, GalleyCat, Lifehacker, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Word count, Writer Resources, writing, writing tips on November 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Write TK for missing facts. I do it automatically. Without even thinking about it. Which is why I was stopped in my tracks when GalleyCat posted this tip this week (which referenced a similar post at Lifehacker). I realized two things: 1. Not everyone does this, although perhaps they use some variation like “xxx.” 2. [...]
Stay Calm…
Posted in Revision Process, tagged baby grand, revisions, writing on November 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How is it possible that words that sounded so good three months ago suddenly seem clunky and ineffective? What was supposed to be minor revising is turning into a bit of an overhaul. Or maybe it just seems that way. Is it possible to make a novel worse during the revision process? Maybe so, but [...]
Revision Decisions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Leah Crichton, revision process, revisions on November 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I spent half an hour on Monday staring at the first paragraph of Baby Grand. I read it again and again until the words just seemed to suspend in air, not making any sense at all. The revising process is an interesting one. After spending so much time just writing from my heart and about [...]
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