On Wednesday, I finished editing my manuscript for Baby Grand. The third edit. And hopefully the last — at least for the time being. The book is now 330 pages and just over 93,000 words (my original draft was 277 pages). If you would have told me on Monday that I would be finished by [...]
Archive for September, 2011
‘Just Cut the Whole Damn Thing’
Posted in Revision Process, Uncategorized, tagged edit, Facebook, writing, Writing & Editing on September 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Writing Tip #50
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged Arts, East Hampton, East Hampton (town) New York, Public-access television, The Writer's Dream, writing on September 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Own your process. Today, I taped three more shows of The Writer’s Dream, a little public access show I moderate out in East Hampton, and one of the writers was telling me that she tends to “overwrite” her books — meaning she likes to write and write and write and then go back, during the [...]
My Cousin Jesse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baby, Cheerios, Children, grapes, parenting, Thriller on September 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is my cousin Jesse. I babysat this little six-month-old pumpkin a few times over the past month, and I’ve enjoyed every delicious second, marveling over those chubby legs and cheeks and the newness of everything to that pair of big, innocent eyes. I was giving Jesse his bottle of formula the other day and [...]
Writing Tip #49
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand novel, Book Review, Literary fiction, The New York Times, Tom Perrotta on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Keep readers hooked, from beginning to end. In The New York Times Book Review today, author Tom Perrotta said this: “I have definitely accepted the aesthetic principle, that you should be more interested toward the end of a book than you are in the beginning. Which is not always the case in literary fiction.” I [...]
Writing Tip #47
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged Sweet Valley Confidential, Sweet Valley High on September 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Try something new. Today’s belated tip (see Writing Tip #46) was inspired by my reading some of the Sweet Valley High books as well as Sweet Valley Confidential, the new novel that chronicles the lives of the Wakefield girls 10 years later. I’m usually a thriller or literary fiction kind of girl — I am [...]
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