This evening I glanced over two chapters that needed work and as I wondered how I was going to clarify things and all that, I realized I just didn't need them. And like that--ZAP--they were gone! Wahoo! Ten pages of rewrites done. Ha-ha. (Okay, it wasn't really zap because I didn't delete it. Since I'm …
Finding Karma
Most of us probably use the word karma to flippantly and inaccurately, but what a great word it is and what a great day it has been. I went to the Austin Fine Arts Festival today, and I happened to see an artist I'd met before--Stephanie Strange. Two years ago I'd bought a picture from …
Badgering–The Demon vs. Deity Edition
I don't know about you, but sometimes I just get sick and tired of what I'm writing. Two things are possible--either the novel really is bad and the writing gods and goddesses are hitting me over the head with quit-now stick (it is a very big stick and takes several deities to lift it). Or …
The Rewrite Chronicles
Rewriting is its own circle of hell. There is every possibility I'm making the novel worse. Right now I'm putting a subplot back in that I had taken out. Perhaps I've found the magic ingredient and the results will be amazing and excellent and everyone will ask for the recipe. Or I've just pitched a …
The Best Paper Fight Ever
The fun was even bigger than the mess.
A Perfect Moment
This evening I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen. On the counter was a The Writer magazine, a picture I was working on, and a glass of wine. The shouts and laughter of my son and husband bounced in from the other room. I coated the picture with finish, took a sip of …
The Writing on the Wall
Well, if one can't sell a novel any other way, make it into art. I've taken a rough draft of a manuscript and shredded it. Soon those little bits will be framed and hanging on the wall. The damn thing will get read one way or another.
Because I’m avoiding ripping out my heart…go figure…
Could be writing...or something else...
Overheard (sort of)
This was not exactly overheard because it was said to me, but I'm describing it that way since I ignored it. A man on standing idly on the sidewalk shouted as I walked by him, "Go home Jew!" Where does one begin with all the things wrong with that?
The Rewrite Chronicles (notice a theme?)
Possible titles--from the not-too-bad to the ridiculous... The Labyrinth House The Promise of Lightning The Labyrinth of Promises The Girl and the Lightning The Girl and the Labyrinth Lightning and Promises ???????????? Errrrr...........what on earth am I thinking? Any of these sound workable to you? Or maybe I should ask if any of these say, …
Marta Bacon 