This has been a good week to be a writer. Not just because I’m pleased with what I’ve written this week, but because I got an unexpected boost from two podcasts. Well, okay, one was expected. (I’m a regular listener to the Writing Excuses podcast so I’m always expecting to be inspired.) But out of [...]
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750words becomes a paying site March 1
I found out by accident late yesterday evening that 750words.com, which I’ve recommended to writers, will become a paying site March 1. There’s not a word about it on the site (so far). The FAQ still — erroneously — says: Will you ever charge people to use this site? I do have some ideas for [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Group Food Blog has Launched!
We’ve been working behind the scenes to get the group food blog going and though not all the foodies/bloggers have joined the blog, it launched this weekend! I posted an essay on why I’m writing a vegetarian food blog even though I don’t consider myself vegetarian and Nancis posted a yummy soup recipe. I’ve been [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ahhhhhh….A New Year!
I hope everyone had a happy holiday season! I took time off from writing, relaxed, and am now about to plunge back into fiction. I’m feeling very optimistic about this year. I mean, much more so than some other years and much more than my own natural optimism. I don’t know why, but I just [...]
Read the rest of this entry »NaNoWriMo No More: I Did It!!
Crazy me, I thought I’d blog while I was doing NaNoWriMo but I was usually so wrung out from writing that I felt like I didn’t have any words to spare at the end of the day. But I did it. I won NaNoWriMo! And I’ve recovered enough to blog about it. I’m not the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »NaNoWriMo: A Different Way of Writing
I’ve decided to do NaNoWriMo this year even though the timing isn’t good for me. I’ve never done it before, but this is going to be a wild experience any time I try it. It usually takes me 1.5-2 years to write a novel, sometimes longer. I’ve read about pulp writers in the ’50s who [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Life Trumps Fiction
Life trumps fiction by virtue of being real, immediate, and not optional. You have to spend a certain amount of time actively engaged in life if you want to write well. Someone who has been a hermit for a twenty years might produce a good book on spiritual enlightenment, but I daresay such a person [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Abandoning the manuscript
Sub Rosa, the novel which was to be a sequel to The Malice Plant, is going to have to be abandoned. I’ve given this a lot of consideration over the past few weeks. I’m three-quarters of the way through writing the book. After a recent rereading of the manuscript, I realized that there is a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Solar birds…and getting my ducks in a row
I got some solar birds from Ikea for the back garden. Here’s a pic of them all lit up! I know I should post here more often, but I’ve been very busy writing fiction. I figure the solar birds rate a post because they look sort of fictional. I’m still creeping toward the end of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Muse Dog
My friends have already seen this: I posted it on my Facebook profile back in the fall…However this is a snapshot not of a particular day, but of most days and I thought I’d post it here as I settle down to write today with my muse-dog snuggled down beside me. This photo is the [...]
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Spent the morning with fictional trees. The afternoon? Dogs and garden! How are you spending Earth Day? - posted on 22/04/2013 11:57:46