Oct 16th, 2008 | 22 Comments
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My second guest blog is up on The Swivet. It's about how rejection can be a positive thing. Even heartbreaking rejections from Jeff Probst. Check it out!
The election results were an unsurprising disappointment and that is all I will ... READ MORE ›
Aug 13th, 2008 | 10 Comments
oh my god, it’s kind of serious
Man, I am so lethargic lately. I think I'm STILL decompressing from the first draft of Your Mom. I was going to say that I have never had a novel kick my butt as hard as that one has, but ... READ MORE ›
Jul 14th, 2008 | 8 Comments
this week will be the week
Thanks to all for the good luck wishes here and elsewhere. It helped, but unfortunately I need another week of fake radio silence since I did not complete my novel. This disappoints me greatly, since I wrote my little fingers ... READ MORE ›
Jul 6th, 2008 | 12 Comments
the eye of the tigger
I attempted to finish a book this weekend. Now I am attempting to finish a book this week. I have been chronicling my writing progress on twitter (at all times, you can trust that I am somewhere on the internet). ... READ MORE ›
May 13th, 2008 | 20 Comments
adventures in copyediting
When I was copyediting last night, A SPIDER ATTACKED ME. I was working at my desk and saw it on the ceiling and the next thing I knew, it was ON ME. And then I looked back up at the ... READ MORE ›
Apr 22nd, 2008 | 6 Comments
o frabjous day! callooh! callay!
Your Mom v. 2.0 wordcount:
10,000 / 55,000(18.2%)
I wrote 6,000 of those words (about 20 some pages), yesterday. I have to edit them all today and I will probably lose words in the editing but this is okay. I'm pretty sure ... READ MORE ›
Apr 19th, 2008 | 9 Comments
writing is hard
Regarding Your Mom: see this tumblr entry.
What more can I say.
see more crazy cat pics READ MORE ›
Apr 14th, 2008 | 10 Comments
adventures in writing
I hate when you have a hole on the inside of your coat pocket and the Bonne Bell lipgloss that cost you four dollars ($!) falls into the lining and you go weeks thinking you've lost it and then one day you ... READ MORE ›
Apr 11th, 2008 | 4 Comments
roar
I think my novel has stopped unwriting itself which is good. Now I'm re-editing the first 100 pages of it (again) because I realized I'm going to have to add a character (!) and remove an emotional subplot. I would ... READ MORE ›
Apr 7th, 2008 | 4 Comments
taking responsibility for your actions is for suckers
"I'd been working on the same one hundred and seven pages forever, and then it was the same one hundred and four pages and then it was one hundred pages and then it was ninety-seven and now it's ninety-three. Ninety-three!"
"It sounds ... READ MORE ›
