crack in the narrative

A crack in the narrative–that’s how Annie Dilliard explains a sudden stop in the flow of writing a novel. I’ve been tottling along, riding this really fast-paced plot of the fourth novel, cementing in details and sweeping away the extranious, when I realized Friday the flow had stopped. I got off track in the plot, [...]

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ruby slippers

 

Mom met me at the door in the red sandals we’d ordered over the internet. I love my shoes, she said. I smiled. Of all the things I miss about her encroaching disease, I miss the absence of her black belt shopper. On my feet were red workout shoes, seen when I was looking for [...]

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blah blah

 

This won’t be a long post. I’m a little nuts. I’ve done nearly nothing all week but finish up the web site I finally, finally, years late, put together through the Author’s Guild. I’m cross-eyed with writing copy and primitive html and finding photos. Does any of it matter, I wonder?
I’ve been advised how [...]

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title trauma

The novel is shaping up nicely. I’m about half-way through the polish, and there are times when it reads as smooth as glass. That means a reader likely won’t be able to put it down. I’m worried about the beginning however. I’d had a number of readers, and a friend who reads two-character novels, complain [...]

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doing it wrong?

Am I doing it all wrong? This blog, I mean. I went to a workshop this weekend about the internet and social media, which, in case you didn’t know, is what this is. Build a community was among the advice given, give people a reason to respond.
I guess I saw this blog more as a [...]

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