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  • Repurposing

    With the new year (and with my return to the land of the living after a major, major bout with illness), I'm trying to figure out what to do with this blog. I've let it sit fallow for too long, but don't have any writing…

  • Words of Praise

    We writers are weird bunch. We slave away alone writing and re-writing, wondering if what we've typed is any good at all. After about five drafts or so, it comes time to send that baby out into the world and get some fee…

  • Not dead yet...

    General sloth is the reason I haven't posted in a while. Frankly, I couldn't come up with a topic and I wasn't wild about the Featured Grownups topics. I try to stay on-topic here about writing and the business of making…

  • Dead or alive?

    I sent out a manuscript of an older novel to a smallish book publisher that doesn't require an agent. I used the information that was provided in an article on the publisher and info from the Web site. Now I looked on th…

  • Monday, Monday

    I watched the Oscars last night and didn't think Jon Stewart was all that funny, which is really unusual for me. Did they rein him in? I remember last time he hosted, people were savaging his very funny performance. I gu…

  • Tidbits

    I was honored yesterday to become a member of the board of directors of the Society of Midland Authors. It actually sounds a lot better than it is, since I really don't have to do a whole lot of anything. It's an excuse …

  • Time

    I was thinking yesterday quite a bit about time and how it moves in a novel. The book I just read, "Bridge of Sighs" by Richard Russo, is beautifully written, but I think he has gone a smidge over the line with his flash…

  • Back to work!

    You know you like what you are doing when you are glad the holidays are over so you can get back to work. I did a fair amount of revision yesterday and will be reading over another ms. to send an agent. I'm really exci…

  • In Character

    I've been reading a book called "Garden Spells," which is not the greatest novel in the world, but it has great characters. So I've been thinking a lot about characters lately and how mine really seemed to work in some n…

  • Descriptions

    I had a tough time with comments on descriptive passages in my fiction recently. In fact, it was making me question some of the advice I got early in my fiction career. "Use more description!" the authors and teachers sa…

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