Learn to Love the Pain
When it inevitably comes time, at the beginning of spring, to get back in shape, I want to snap my fingers and have an exercise genie magically remake my body without me having to do a whole lot of work. But of course, I gripe and grouse and pull on my swimsuit, even when all those …
Stumble and Bumble Your Way to Success
Join me for a talk to the California Writer’s Club Marin Branch in May: Sunday, May 23, 2010 at Book Passage, Corte Madera: ”The Wild and Wooly, Stumble and Bumble Your Way to Success Story. Or: How Anyone Can Publish By Saying Yes” In this new day of publishing, writers have to think even further …
Susan Henderson: Trust Your (re)Vision
I thought of a lot of different ways to “introduce” Susan Henderson here, but each time they came out sounding cheesy. You may know her for her powerful writing, published in multiple print and online sources, or from www.Litpark.com, her brainchild and baby. You may know her from when she edited at Night Train magazine or from …
Writers on Revision: Hope Edelman
Today Make a Scene launches its “Writers on Revisions” series, which will go on for several weeks. I admit that this is a self-serving project. I’m embarking on a novel revision, and rather than jumping off into that terrifying place alone, I wanted to bolster my process with words of advice from published authors and …
The Road MORE Traveled
On some level I’m always thinking about revision because a) I’m a writer, and at some point after the joyous font of writing pleasure, I know I’m in for it. b) I’m an editor and daily I offer suggestions to others on how to revise their work. I’ve also had the good fortune to interview …
Temporary Abandonment=Creative Flow
For the first time in AGES I am not blogging because I’m too busy writing fiction It feels so good. I proclaim for all to witness that I WILL finish a draft (a first draft) by March, if not sooner, and a second draft by June. So, dear agent who hasn’t heard from me in …
Wild and Wooly Path to Success
In April I’ll be giving a talk to the California Writer’s Club. I’ve decided to title it “My Wild and Wooly, Stumble and Bumble My Way to Success Story. Or: How anyone can get published if you keep saying yes.” My path to publication has never been a straight line. The only constant in my journey …
Warming up for the New Year
I’m sure a little online research could reveal to me why January is considered the start of a new year. It seems such an odd time of year to “begin” if you think about it, at least in North America where living things are dormant and slow. And yet, there is something motivating in these …
Welcoming War: The Editor and the Wild Thing
Today’s guest poster, Alegra Clarke, is new mom to her third baby as of two days ago. A healthy, robust boy. In honor of that, we have her wonderful post: I am a person who guards her peace. This isn’t to say I don’t love a good drama. I’m a guilty voyeur of other people’s …
Writer’s Angels
In the life of every writer there are angels who sweeten the path; who say yes after a hundred no’s; who like your work; who champion what you do despite the fact that you don’t even know them in person. You are lucky to have one, blessed to have several. When I first encountered Maria …
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