I felt a little guilty titling this post the usual “Weekday Warrioring” with all these nanoers around putting in real words and real time. Honestly, I barely have a moment for writing work beyond studying for finals right now.
I did talk to my agent recently, though, so I have that to report. I was fortunate [...]
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November 18, 2009
What’s Happening
October 26, 2009
New Blog Schedule
I haven’t blogged for an entire week! That’s the longest I’ve gone without posting and yes, it makes me sad. But I’ve been putting in honest work, I swear. One bit of work has been blog pondering. Yes, blog pondering.
When Fumbling with Fiction first began, I had a schedule that I kept to. Those were [...]
October 8, 2009
First Line Followup
Man, there is a lot of love for Jane Austen out there, huh? She seems to have the first line to end all first lines. But my favorite line actually comes from Ingrid Law’s Savvy. It goes:
“When my brother Fish turned Thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland because of the hurricane and, [...]
September 29, 2009
Review in Questions: God is an Englishman by R. F. Delderfield
This bestselling novel set in the ruthless world of Victorian commerce follows the fortunes of Adam Swann, a scion of an Army family and veteran of campaigns in the Crimea and in India, in his quest to found his own financial dynasty. His struggle to succeed and his conquest of Henrietta, the spirited daughter of [...]
September 23, 2009
Personal Development for the Purposeful Writer
Frequenting writing forums I notice that there are various types of aspiring authors. There are some writers who you know aren’t quite there yet, but are working so hard at listening to those more experienced and at learning. Whenever I run into those, I feel like I am certain they will make it. Then, there [...]
September 18, 2009
My Dog Ate My Homework
My last post (below), got deleted somehow as you can see. Not sure how that happened. Somewhere between pushing “Publish” and viewing the page, it disappeared. It took me a long time, too! So now I’m very angry and sad and mad at wordpress. And y’all will be stuck with a short easy post about….hmmm….thoughts [...]