Writing Process
November 20, 2009
- I love this Wall St. Journal article about writers sharing their processes. Maybe it’s the onset of fall, the recent time change, or the fact that Mercury was in retrograde for a while — but I’ve found that this article has really resonated with fellow writers, not only for the insider’s view into some of our favorite writers’ practices but for the comfort of knowing that there’s no ...
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November 12, 2009
- ::sounds a fanfare::Without further ado, I bring you the greatest gift a writer can ever receive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNkZzKm
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October 27, 2009
- Thank you, Queen Louise for doing such a great job filling in yesterday. (I was off conducting cooking experiments under conditions that sort of simulated the Valley Forge encampment in December 1777.)Zoe continues to be in the running for inclusion in a million boxes of Cheerios, but there is bad news.Other books (which are sweet books, lovely books, but still) are surging ahead. ::cues ...
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October 27, 2009
- Update on The Zoe Vote: I, Queen Louise, just voted! Have you??? When I did, I noticed that our Zoe Girl is still in fourth place, BUT she has 11% of the vote. Please, Please, Please, after you read Ard Hoyt's comments about making Zoe come to life on the page... VOTE!!! (the instructions are below for those of you just joining ...
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October 20, 2009
- Congratulations to everyone whose books made the YALSA Teen Top Ten list for 2009!Thanks to everyone to came out to see me at SUNY Oswego yesterday! And thanks to those who sent in questions about picture book writing. Let's get to it, shall we?Do you get to know your picture book characters as well as those in your novels?I know them on a completely different level, like the way you knew your ...
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October 19, 2009
- Go ahead and yell at me. I took yesterday off.We sprinkled my father-in-law's ashes up at our camp on Saturday, near where we put my Mom last month. We had a great family get-together at our house afterward, tears and laughter, bitter and sweet in just the right proportions. And I woke up Sunday with a burning need to spend the entire day in my garden and not touch any computers. Thanks for ...
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October 17, 2009
- Reading Your Writing Out Loud Today I’m preparing for my reading tonight at LitQuake’s LitCrawl. I’ll be reading from my forthcoming novel, Love in Translation, and I’m excited to be a part of this great literary tradition in San Francisco. We only have 5-6 minutes to read and this makes total sense; it’s hard for an audience to concentrate on a passage much longer than this, ...
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October 16, 2009
- Thank you! Thank you! Because you and your friends, cats, dogs, and cubicle mates voted for Zoe yesterday, she appears to be sitting in third place in the contest to win a spot in a million boxes of Cheerios. The contest goes to the end of the month, so I'm going to blog about the writing process of the book every day. Where did the idea for Zoe come from?My family room.I have one daughter, ...
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September 15, 2009
- I've been reading the diary of Benjamin Gilbert, who was an American soldier for the entire Revolution. Most of the diary is filled with one or two line entries about the weather.May 1778the 3rd Sunday. Fair Pleasant day.the 5th Fair and Clear.the 6th. Fair.the 7th. Clear and warm.You get the gist.Then there are the entries about his health. He may well have been suffering pellagra or beriberi ...
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September 2, 2009
- I ought to be working, and so... I bring you this blog entry, not on the theme of procrastination (which I believe has already been quite comprehensively covered both by myself and other bloggers), but on writer's foibles and obsessions.As a breed, writers are generally accepted to be a neurotic, eccentric bunch. For one thing, a person has to be a bit screwy to want to spend hours of their time ...
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