So, I’ve begun querying agents. So far I have three letters out. I’ve been struggling to get them out amid major newspaper deadlines, and grading and commenting on student papers, a recipe for exhaustion if there ever was one. That doesn’t include making sure kids have their homework done and all of our clothes are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
An evening in the red room
Posted in family, life, photography, poetry, writing, tagged art, fiction, photography, poetry, writing, writing rooms on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sitting here in my red room, working amid the clutter of Pokemon cards and the sound of Pokemon streaming over the Internet. So, it’s not the ideal writing space, but I think of Stephen King and how he wrote in his book On Writing: A Memoir of Craft of writing with his son playing [...]
The search is on
Posted in life, writing, tagged agents, fiction, novel, writing on August 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While my book is being read, proofed and the like by my dear sister Lee, I’ve begun the dreaded agent search. I guess it’s not so dreaded. After looking through Google for agents and “how-to” articles on writing the killer query, I found agentquery.com. I’m sure it’s a well-known site, but I figured I’d link [...]
What I learned about writing from my vacation
Posted in family, life, writing, tagged books, camping, characters, dogs, fiction, life, tent camping, vacation, writing on July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Okay, so I didn’t bring work on vacation. That is, I didn’t bring my computer, but I brought a summer read that I could tell everyone I was reading for pleasure, while I worked at dissecting it…well sort of dissecting it. I was, after all, on vacation. The book was The Art of Racing in [...]
The glamorous writing life
Posted in family, life, writing, tagged bumper stickers, fiction, holes in cars, life, novel, writing on June 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I should have written about this a while ago, but I was focused on other things. While this bumper sticker does say something about what I’m spending my summer doing–revising my novel. I’m not necessarily putting anyone I know in the novel, but I couldn’t resist the bumper sticker. I wouldn’t normally put bumper stickers [...]
Oh Father
Posted in art, family, life, writing, tagged art, family, Father's Day, fathers, fiction, life, writing on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Father’s Day, and I’ve taken a brief pause from my novel revision to reflect on fathers. Ironically, I’m working on a chapter in my book where my protagonist is hanging out with her dad. My book, on some level, deals with the father-daughter relationship since my protagonist, Rosa, only has one sibling–a sister named [...]
My maple has been rained on. I have work to do.
Posted in life, tagged characters, creative writing, fiction, life, mfa, MFA Creative Writing, novel, novel in progress, writing on June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My maple is full with red leaves and the rains from last night have left drops of water that cling and sparkle from each open leaf. They leaves look like small hands extended, holding something precious. I could look at this all day, but I have work to do. I’m working on my novel Sometimes [...]
Readings all the time
Posted in writing, tagged Bret Lott, fiction, writers on Youtube, writing on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, while millions of people are clicking on Susan Boyle’s video, I noticed Bret Lott didn’t get quite as big an audience. It makes sense that writers would be on Youtube, I’d just never really considered looking for them there. I live to hear writers and poets read their own work. [...]
Making it through the snow with Michael Feldman and T.C. Boyle
Posted in life, writing, tagged fiction, life, radio, snow, writing on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I try as best as I can not to find myself on the road in the midst of winter storm warnings, especially on a Saturday. My daughter, however, had spent the night at a friend’s house a good 30 minutes away from my house. It was a birthday party, so I couldn’t very well say [...]
Word of the Month – Finished
Posted in life, writing, tagged fiction, life, novel, writing on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a while since I last posted, so I’m calling this post the word of the month. Although, the next post will probably be a word of the week again and, hopefully, I won’t be such a slacker.
What I mean by finished is that I’ve finished a full draft of a novel that I’ve [...]
