When I finally had procrastinated enough last week and pushed myself to open the Baby Grand word document, I was worried it would be like the first round of revisions, when on the first day I spent half an hour agonizing over the first paragraph and was blown away by unhappy I was with the [...]
Archive for January, 2011
So Far, So Good!
Posted in Revision Process, Uncategorized, tagged baby grand novel, coloring books, Editing, revising, revision process, revisions on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Writing Tip #17
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Arts, Facebook, Great American Novel, Jonathan Franzen, Novel, Twitter, Writers Resources, writing on January 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Not every novelist is an island. I think most of us have this image in our heads of the solitary novelist, the writer chained to her desk, hanging a “Gone Fishing” sign on the door and pounding away on a computer keyboard with empty microwavable trays around her, undisturbed, until the Great American Novel has [...]
This Just In… Not Again!
Posted in Revision Process, Uncategorized, tagged AOL, Capital punishment, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter on January 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Rachelle Gardner, a literary agent I follow on Twitter, recently made the following statement: A lot of writers are setting stories in the past to avoid dealing with internet, Facebook, text msging, etc. Not good! I laughed when I read this. Not because I shy away from technology in Baby Grand. In fact, quite the [...]
What Does Success Mean For You?
Posted in Guest Blogger, tagged Careann's Musings, Carol J. garvin, Gina Holmes, Mary DeMuth, Pat Bertram, Shari Green, success on January 27, 2011 | 30 Comments »
Years ago, in the early 1990s, a colleague of mine asked me whether I thought a novel was any less successful if it were written but never published. I remember thinking at the time, “Uh, yeah. Duh.” Now, 20 years later, here I am in that very place, having written a novel that is as [...]
Final Round of Revisions
Posted in Revision Process, tagged Arts, baby grand, baby grand novel, Gregory House, Literature, Mikael Blomkvist, Writers Resources on January 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Had a terrific conversation with my agent on Monday about Baby Grand. One of my most favorite things in the world is hearing her talk about my book — listening to what she got out of it, what she enjoyed, her impressions of the characters, how she feels she knows these people in the same [...]
Writing Tip #16
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Arts, Evernote, Writers Resources, Writing Exercises on January 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Remember, “writing” doesn’t only happen when you’re sitting at your computer. I’m a big believer in daydreaming. I spend a lot of my time doing it. Just thinking. I’ll be lying on the couch, and my daughter will ask me, “What are you doing?” And I’ll say, “I’m writing.” I can’t even tell you how [...]
Enlarge Your ‘P’ Today!
Posted in Guest Blogger, tagged Facebook, John and Lorena Bobbitt, Maiden Voyage, Pacific Ocean, Paris Hilton, San Francisco, Swept - Love With a Chance of Drowning, Tania Aebi, Torre DeRoche, Twitter on January 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I meet someone on Twitter with whom I just hit it off. Torre DeRoche, today’s guest blogger, is one of those people. Knowing what I do about Torre and her memoir – and, quite frankly, it isn’t that much, which makes this statement that much bolder — I predict that someday soon, real soon, [...]
Writing Tip #15
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged baby grand novel, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Novel, Thriller, writing on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Keep ‘em guessing — incorrectly. I’m one of those readers who likes to guess what’s going to happen in a book. “Oh, I just know that So-and-So is the mole!” or “The hero is going to find the treasure under the fountain at the mall! You’ll see!” Hence, the pressure on the novelist, particularly the [...]
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