I don’t really ‘get’ you…
I'm working on my novel again today (yeah!). As I'm writing it, I've had a troubling realization: I don't really 'get' my main character.I think I'm writing her correctly (based on observations I've made of people like her) but this is really wierd. She's a serial dater. I've explored the [...]
Changing Habits
I am SO happy to be writing again! It's so much fun to get back to what I love. It's going well so far - I'm at 8500 words. Don't let that fool ya, though - I pulled about 70% of that from my first draft (which I've already edited [...]
Trying to catch up
This summer has turned out to be one of the busiest summers that I can remember. I'm not sure how that happened, but it did. I'm still trying to catch up with everything that I've missed, including reading blogs.My friend, and newly agented writer, Jeanette gave me an award on [...]
Writing Practice – First Sentences
I saw this in an article in the September 2009 Writer's Digest. I don't always do the prompts, but I was getting my car fixed and had time to kill.Here it is: write 10 first sentences. Don't think; don't edit. Just write the first things that come to mind.This is [...]
The Ramblings – Did You Know?
As I've been thinking about the traffic that travels between my blogs it occurred to me that I might not have ever told you about the "other" blog. And since I brought it up Monday, I figured I should make sure y'all know what I'm talking about.This blog here is [...]