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 …
Continue reading Is it cleanliness that is next to godliness? Are we sure about that?
I used to wonder how some of my friends could spend so much time blogging and zipping around the internet. Now I know. At least for me this medium provides feedback in a way that sitting away writing alone in my closet does not. Anytime I get a reader who is not one of my …
I'm waiting for rejection. Or I could put my postive face on (dust it off first) and say I'm waiting for acceptance. Oh, though one agent might give you a few precious moments of her life and then promise to support you for better or for worse, through sickness and in health, until death (or …
What to do, what to do? Do people even read fiction anymore? Lots of people are writing it, but who's reading it? How many times do I hear someone say something like, "But is it true?" Or "I like true stories about real people." Real people? Who are they? The people on reality television? Eeek! …
Writing a blog in real time and writing a novel (what? in fake time?) is messing with my head. I feel like that guy in Stranger than Fiction when the psychiatrist tells him he has schizophrenia and he keeps telling her he doesn't. Oh the voices! But of course I'm the narrator and sometimes I …
Sometimes I think being a writer is a bit like working really hard to scale the walls of a skyscraper when you're terrified of heights.
This blog is supposed to be about the writing life and the life of my characters. But this I just have to go on about. So, I decide to put my blogs on Globe of Blogs, and there is this amazing list of topics to check regarding said blog. These categories are divided into categories …
Today vacation ended and I had to head back to school, and my heart was not in it. There was a time when new notebooks, pens, highlighters, and textbooks gave me a thrill--I mean few things say my future's so bright as a new notebook. I could spend way too much time picking just the …
One character who gets talked about in the blog is Tim. Course, since he doesn't work at The Sunlight, he doesn't get a word in, but he's a presence all the same. But he's also a character in the novel I'm working on which takes place before the blog begins. So I know things about …
Continue reading A Little Bit of a Jerk–But Not Too Much of a Jerk
When you dream that paper with words scrawled over every piece is dropping from your finger tips, maybe you've spent a lot of time writing. Just a possibility. My fingers actually feel tired this morning...
Marta Bacon 