All right, so, beginning with the caveat that this is my first time out finding an agent, I won’t bury the lead here: I don’t know exactly how you find one. I took a six hour course on LinkedIn Learning called Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher to beginning figuring this out, and I’ll […]
There’s this thing Stephen King talks about in his book On Writing that rubs me the wrong way. Now I should confess up front that I love Stephen King. As far as adult fiction goes, he was my first love, and while that love dimmed temporarily when I became a snotty elitist literary student in […]
All right, and so I’m back to discuss the rather prolonged period of my apprenticeship in learning to write books. Of course, if you’re trying new things, trying to grow, I’m not sure your apprenticeship ever really ends, especially if you’re not interested in writing the same book over and over. So thus far I […]
My last post began a series of posts in which I’ve decided, upon setting out to find an agent for my new YA novel, The Elusive Black Truffle, to recount my writing journey and how I came to be where I’m at. I described my half decade spent in my early 20s writing and rewriting […]
I recognize that I’ve neglected the blog portion of my site for a while here. I’ve never really gotten my feet under me regarding what it’s purpose should be. For about a decade, between when I was twenty-two and thirty-two, social media was appealing to me, but around 2016, I stopped being interested in saying […]
In recent years, I haven’t listened to music as much as I used to. Most of it is a matter of time to absorb music. Since the kids were born, I don’t have as much time on my hands to focus on leisure activities. I like podcasts too, and these days, rather than listen to […]
Orchard trip yesterday. It’s an annual thing. We go and pick up a few kitschy decorations for Halloween, two pies that we split with my parents, apple cider, apple cider donuts. Always begins in the best of spirts and ends with us exhausted. Taking kids under ten anywhere will do that to you eventually, as […]
I finally managed to track down a bottle of Nikka from the Barrel. It’s been on my list for a while, collecting whiskies is something of a hobby for me, and I search out good bottles. But the Nikka has come in and out of the stores so quickly here that I wasn’t able to […]
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Personal Time, Writing Process Reflections // No Comments
This was what I was referencing yesterday: patience. You’re not always going to feel uncreative. States of mind pass. Getting depressed or upset about them doesn’t help, though I understand the impulse to get upset or depressed. It’s hard to take the long view, to wait, especially when your compulsion is to work. Writing yesterday […]
“Days without any creative work are lost days. An artist, a real artist, would work.” I mentioned yesterday that I can’t resist the $1.99 Kindle deals here and there, and over the weekend, I saw Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks was available for $2.99 and I simply couldn’t resist. I love books of journal […]