It makes a person want to go inside and lock the door and just write.
Tag Archives: the writer’s life
"Read" not "bought"
I don’t want to depend on the smartypants way; I’d rather build my audience one by one.
Write Your Story: Begin with Humility
When you put your adventures out there, other people will learn about them and tell you about their own; then you’ll wonder why you thought you were so special.
Review: Bird by Bird
Take the advice, enjoy the humor, and gird yourself for the despair. Lamott has survived her despair and by her example (perhaps in spite of herself) reminds us that you won’t be facing the existential maw, you’ll just be joining the club.
REVIEW: What The Stones Remember
The blurb on the book’s front cover is by Alice Munro, “To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment.” Read it and become enchanted.
Remember me
A bad dream is one way to remember why I write, why not doing it would be torture.
From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher
Acceptance seems like the end of the road but there are always significant events to follow. A friend is dealing with her editor’s broken leg, which will delay her book. Any physical problem with an agent or editor at the publishing house is disturbing. A former agent of mine’s husband fell very ill and sheContinue reading “From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher”
Midnight in Rome
At night the center of Rome is as still as the middle of a remote lake at midnight.
The writer and the laundry
We all have to choose where to lay our sacrifices, and I have lain mine at the feet of my children. The greatest sacrifice was going to work every day, thus missing important events in their lives