Wiping the slate clean. Traditionally, the first day of a new year is the time to start making good on all those New Year’s resolutions, to embark on good habits, end the bad ones, and become a better person (healthier, more productive) than you were the year before. But the truth is you really can [...]
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Writing Tip #64
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged New Year, New year resolution on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Writing Tip #63
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Chua, Darin Strauss, Girl With Dragon Tattoo, Hunger Games, New Year's resolution, Stieg Larsson, Suzanne Collins, Sweet Valley High, Young-adult fiction on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Setting (and reaching) goals. I had one New Year’s resolution for 2011: to read more. Plain and simple. And I’m happy to say that I reached that goal. I was shooting for a modest one book a month and wound up reading 16: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (fiction) Battle Hymn [...]
The Author Who Wrote with Fire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Girl Who Played With Fire, Girl With Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, Rooney Mara, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just started reading The Girl Who Played with Fire, and I cannot put it down. Like its predecessor, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the prologue sucked me in immediately, but unlike the first book, the action starts pretty quickly. (I remember a friend wholeheartedly recommending Tattoo to me with this one caveat: “You [...]
Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged reading, Take Your Child to a Bookstore on December 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today is apparently “Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day,” and there are hundreds of stores around the world participating with all kinds of special events and discounts to celebrate the day. Personally, I think we should be taking our kids to bookstores all the time, but if this is a way to get just [...]
Long Island’s Jeb Ladouceur at Book Revue
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand novel, Book Revue, Huntington, Inked!, Jeb Ladouceur, Long Island, The Oba Project, The Writer's Dream, Thriller on December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I attended a reading and book signing on Wednesday by Long Island thriller writer Jeb Ladouceur, who appeared at the Book Revue in Huntington. Jeb spoke about the writing process, read an except from his forthcoming book, Inked!, which will be published in 2012, and also signed copies of his latest book, The Oba Project. [...]
Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden: A Night to Remember
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts, Firework, Garden, katyperry, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York City, Woody Allen on November 17, 2011 | 12 Comments »
“Do you know that there’s still a chance for you?” – “Firework,” Katy Perry I often hear from people that the reason they don’t enter writing contests or competitions is because of the sheer numbers out there doing the exact same thing. “What are the odds that I’ll win?” they say. Let me tell you [...]
Writing Tip #57
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged Writing and Editing, Writing process on November 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Don’t think about editing. Or marketing. Just write. It’s tempting when you’re piecing together your story to think about things that are down the road, like how on earth you’re going to sell this book or what classification or genre it falls into or whether or not you’ll be able to secure an agent or [...]
The Not So Silence of the Lambs
Posted in Reading List, Uncategorized, tagged Anthony Hopkins, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So I’m reading a thriller titled Fallen by Karin Slaughter… And there’s a scene where a FBI-type must go to a prison and visit a particularly heinous guy who is in isolation — a gloomy little section of the prison that the author calls, and what many other books/television shows call, “the hole.” The warden [...]
Writing Tip #56
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts, Daylight saving time, Dictionaries, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Standard time, Twitter, Vocabulary Lists, Word count, Writers Resources, writing on November 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fall back or spring ahead? Today’s writing tip is inspired by the shift back to standard time this morning and the glorious 9 hours of sleep that I got last night, which I soon realized was actually 10 hours of sleep! Go, me! Yesterday evening, I asked my fellow tweeps if I should go ahead [...]
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