Writing
November 18, 2009
- I had introduced a character and written about him for a week without giving him a first name. Or, more accurately - finding out his name. But the time came when the other character, who arrived with first name no problem at all, wanted to know the man's first name. A reasonable question for the woman and, golly gee, I bet the readers would be relieved, also.But.His name would not come. Last ...
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November 18, 2009
- Well, it has been quite some time since my last blog and I deeply apologize. Things have been rather hectic as of late but I will be breaking these up in various blogs so as not to strain everyone's eyes too much with a novella! First things first, Gigi and I sadly did not win the Zuda competition in June, That honor went to the talented Dwight Macpherson and his project Sidewise. It was a ...
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November 17, 2009
- I have an overwhelming desire to stop writing this blog. I'm going to keep a tally of how many times I go back and add/edit/correct something as I write this.(one, two and three) Something tells me, however, that I should keep on because there might be others out there in writingland, or perhaps less alien environs, that may appreciate someone pondering the challenges facing a fellow ...
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November 17, 2009
- Okay Marriage, I've killed-off the funeral, now it's time to unlock wedlock. We humans are funny creatures of habitual tradition. Since publishing is under the reinvention guillotine,and in my opinion, funerals should be murdered, let's take on the ganoche coated, calorie laden institution of marriage. First, I'll share with you what's on the mind of a few of my friends lately. I know an ...
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November 17, 2009
- My third book has just been released; all 612 pages of it. 'The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive Catalogue' is a big doorstop of a book (very useful if you want to whack someone over the head), and the first of its kind on this specific subject. The catalogue started out as a very personal project. When I first began studying Utamaro's prints in 1986, I kept a ...
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November 16, 2009
- Perhaps it is too much to ask (for me of myself, at least) to drastically change the method I write a novel. I embark on a thriller to make (I hope) some fast money. I anticipated more words at the end of a week (and I'm even thinking in the term "words", which I never do). I write in pages. My thousands of words are alien to my vision of the progress of the book.Still - happily - with ...
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November 15, 2009
- I Can't believe I wasn't going to even participate. I just reached 37,065 words today putting me over 12,000 words ahead of the game. The story though, is blowing my mind. It has fallen together like a two piece jigsaw puzzle. This is the most complex thing I have ever written, with such twists and turns and contains some of the most twisted characters to include a detective that's ...
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November 15, 2009
- Recently received the editorial letter for "Tattoo." Six pages of insightful comments and suggestions for sharpening, shaping and clarifying my story. Since speaking with my editor last week, I've been thinking a lot about Tattoo and how to strengthen it.I used Vogler's "Writer's Journey" to create a 4 page plotting/character worksheet. Filling it out helped me identify the ...
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November 14, 2009
- I have been on a long journey heading toward being a published writer. Along the way I got so tangled up in the what if's, the fears, the how to's, the editing, the revision, the state of publishing and countless other worries that I created a lot of anxiety for myself. I almost quit on myself, which is not what I really wanted.I found a childhood friend who spent a lot of time deconstructing ...
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November 14, 2009
- When moving out of a sprawling suburban home six years ago, my husband and I scanned the floor-to-10-foot ceiling book shelves in our den. Each of us packed the books we could not part with. The rest—about 2,000 books—were donated to charity.In our new Manhattan apartment, we settled into two offices lined with shelves, but since my husband’s office was larger, once in a while I snuck there ...
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