I don’t know why there are Type A personalities or Type B’s. I don’t know why opposites attract and if/or the attraction lasts. I just know that I write because it gives me a goal, a focus, a direction. It organizes my brain in such a way that my intense energy, my endless restlessness, becomes […]
Category: Writing Life
Don’t Know What
But I’m sure as heck having a hard time with it. And so maybe it’s just a control issue, maybe it’s my head, maybe I need happy pills, or maybe I really am more crazy than I’d hoped, but whatever it is, its impossible. I’m impossible. I’m sensitive and impatient and frustrated and insecure. I’m […]
Crabs and Ticks
I haven’t posted in a long time. I thought about posting almost daily, but each time when I got close enough to the computer to write something for my blog, I backed away and checked email instead. You see, I’m been afraid to post as I’m afraid I’m going to be myself. I’m going to […]
Best Bits
I’m working on my new book for Warner and it’s my favorite part of writing—the non-writing. I love it. I don’t sit at the computer more than an hour at a stretch. I get to read nearly all day. I make notes, on note cards. I scribble in margins. I highlight text in my books, […]
All In A Day’s Work
The day started fine. Well, sort of fine. I woke up to the sound of my oldest blowing his nose, coughing, and doing that disgusting throat clearing thing between pathetic moans. It continued with him convincing me he couldn’t go to school being deathly sick and with me sending him back to bed even as […]
Big Babies
I’m crabby so watch out. I’m not even sleeping on my crabbiness to see if I won’t feel more rested, as well as diplomatic, in the morning. I’m just laying it down. Right here. Right now. Some people–and in this case, a select number of authors judging contests, particularly RWA’s annual Rita contest–should get over […]
Writer’s Math
This is really for the writers out there, folks who might appreciate how we literary types do math. I have a book that must have–let’s say–13 chapters of twenty to twenty-five pages each. I have been plotting out the story and writing scenes and have a very rough draft. Now it is time to make […]
Fault Lines
I’m waiting for the little men with straight jackets. The writing is sometimes close to mental torture. And I’ve hit that torture tonight. My head really hurts tonight and I think I’m starting to crack. I’m down to five days before my book is due and every time I feel as though I’ve made progress […]
Need My Wheaties
The new puppy has definitely been challenging. She just returned home from the puppy hospital having had eye surgery today for her cherry eye that turned into a bleeding eye-sore. The brown patch over one eye was cute. The red patch over the right eye less adorable. The neighborhood children stopped coming over to see […]
Playing It Cool
I know I’ve touched on this before, but one of the hardest things a writer has to deal with, is the waiting. It takes months–sometimes years–to write a book and it’s sent off and then you wait. And if you’re lucky, it gets a second and a third read, and hopefully recommended to the senior […]
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