One should not finish reading a great book and get yet another agent rejection on the same day. Luckily, the Neil Finn high dulled some of the disappointment. How sad can anyone be when they've eaten Pad Thai just a few feet away from Mark Hart (plays in the band in case you don't know)? …
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Neil Finn is the soundtrack to my writing life. Almost every major character has a song penned by him--whether as Crowded House or The Finn Brothers or as just himself. I hear the song and I think about the character and the story...I've tried other musicians and bands, but nobody else quite captures my writing …
I'm losing my mind. I can't get to my lake belle blog and though I have waited and posted and posted and waited I've yet to hear anything from blogger about solving the problem. You can't call these people, so I just keep clicking and clicking and getting the same error message about too many …
The lack of pictures for Lake Belle is a problem. One coworker suggested I take images from google, but that wouldn't work even if I were inclined to do it. Sure, in a novel people don't expect pictures, but lake belle isn't a book-it's a blog. And on blog people post pictures and join my …
I was being good and grading papers (granted, I was drinking red wine and watching WKRP at the same time) when I was overwhelmed with an urge to move Mercie's story along. Now I feel both thrilled and guilt-ridden. Writers must be a mean lot. Just think of all the terrible things we inflict on …
Mercie is headed for disaster because, as a friend pointed out, she wouldn't make a very good book if you could warn her off her present course. The question is--how far is she going to go before she learns the truth? The longer she goes, the bigger the burn, of course, but I don't really …
So, I bought my domain name because I suffer from the delusion that one day I might be a professional, published author and I don't know if I did something wrong or not but my blog seems to have disappeared. God, I wish I had taken more tech courses! Anyway, it is possible that the …
The one Christmas my mother and I lived together she gave me a hardcover set of A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and A Wind in the Door. I loved those books and twenty-four years later I still have them--stained pages and torn jacekts. Just a note in memory of a writer who …
I'm editing NaNo novel 2006, and I'm on page 65 (single-spaced, mind) and I'm thinking--wow, that's a lot of plot. There are a few magical transformations, an explosion, a death, and a very unfortunate first kiss. Or looked at another way, my main character discovers she can channel some starnge magic energy for good and …
Who is to say that having a clean house isn't a higher calling than writing a novel? Maybe all this time I've been feeling superior to housecleaning-tip-exchanging moms for no good reason. Sure, I've got all these words blackening pages of bleached stained printer paper, but half the bills get paid late simply because I …
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Marta Bacon 