While you write, keep a text file open that contains all the story facts you tend to forget. I am the queen of creating character names, ages, occupations and family trees and then totally forgetting them the next time I sit down to write. How old did I make that character again? Did I spell [...]
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Writing Tip #68
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips, tagged Arts, baby grand, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Grammar, Style Guides, Text file, Writers Resources, writing on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
‘Feeling’ Real
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Johnson, Asia, baby grand, Entertainment Weekly, Johnson, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, Writer on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night, I was reading Rob Brunner’s review of The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson in Entertainment Weekly while watching the big football game (yay, Giants!) and came across this line: Johnson has created such a convincing universe [North Korea] that it doesn’t really matter if he’s accurately captured every detail. It FEELS real, [...]
Writing Tip #22
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged baby grand, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain on March 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Create an outline. In Thursday’s post, I mentioned that I figured out the ending to my second novel, In the Red. Now, it’s a matter of getting from here to there — here being the beginning. For me, a very general outline provides the roadmap to help me figure out where I’m going (or a [...]
The End Is In Sight
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand, In the Red, novels on March 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I just now, sitting here, figured out the ending to my next novel, In the Red. It came to me, as most ideas often do, while I was just daydreaming and not thinking at all about the novel. I’ve written before about how I’d always known how Baby Grand was going to end, which I [...]
A Is For Agent?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A League of Their Own, Amazon Kindle, Arts, baby grand, Book, Greenwich Village, Jimmy Dugan, Literature, Mediabistro, publish, Susan Shapiro on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As readers of this blog know, I recently attended a fab free seminar moderated by Susan Shapiro. Last week, I wrote two posts containing info gleamed from the discussion: 8 Quick Query Letter Tips and Shapiro: Debut Book Should Not Be Cross-Genre. But I wanted to mention a random tidbit that was mentioned. An audience [...]
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 [...]
More Revisions on the Way?
Posted in Revision Process, Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Cuomo, baby grand, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Grover Cleveland, Martin Van Buren, New York, Theodore Roosevelt on January 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I’ve put together a little schedule for finishing the first draft of In the Red, my second novel, this year. Thing is, I’m still thinking about Baby Grand. All the time. (Will I always, I wonder.) My AquaNotes have been getting a workout. I contacted my agent this week to ask if she thought one [...]
So Long, 2010!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand, dr robyn silverman, good girls don't get fat, the stonesong press on December 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s difficult to say goodbye to a very good year. In 2010, a lot of amazing things happened for me, including the publication of Good Girls Don’t Get Fat, a book I worked on with Dr. Robyn Silverman during the bulk of 2009; the completion of my first novel, Baby Grand; signing with The Stonesong [...]
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 [...]
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