Emily Hanlon posted these New Year’s resolutions for fiction writers, and she’s given me permission to reprint them here. I first encountered Emily through the International Women’s Writing Guild years ago, when they were holding their annual summer conferences at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. I gained a lot from her five-day workshop,… [Read More]
The NaNoWriMo Challenge – Do you play well with others?
Warming up the car this morning before taking off for my Nia class, tardy as usual, I caught the tail end of an interview with the best-selling novelist David Baldacci on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Joe Donahue, the interviewer on The Roundtable, asked him if he’d ever consider collaborating with another writer. “No,” he said…. [Read More]
Help! I’m on Katie Couric’s show next week and I don’t have a thing to wear!
This coming Monday I’ll be in the audience at the Katie Couric show, soaking up the atmosphere for my novel-in-progress, which is set in the land of daytime television. But I don’t have a thing to wear! After the phone call inviting me to attend, they sent me a lengthy e-mail explaining what I… [Read More]
New Year’s Resolutions? Bah humbug!
Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions yet? I haven’t, but at least I managed to write a new poem about all the lazy things I did instead: TARDY RESOLUTIONS 2013 January second, and I haven’t made my resolutions yet. Maybe it’s too late to bother. Too late to make it to the Y in… [Read More]
Mad dash to the finish for NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month will be over in exactly 24 hours, and I’ve only got 48,000 words. The finish line is in sight, and by midnight tomorrow I’ll have to crank out at least 2000 more. I’m determined to do it, even if I have to pull an all-nighter the way I did for college… [Read More]
Hallelujah – Discovering e-books, finally!
I’m declaring it official – I’m finally free of depression. After fifteen full months of wallowing in the doldrums, at last I’m genuinely happy. The reason? I’ve decided to write a new novel. During my long dark night of the soul, I wasn’t at all sure I’d ever write again. If anything, I thought I… [Read More]