It’s been a busy week: end of the school year activities most nights, a freelance PPT presentation to get done, decorations for the big dance tonight. But I did manage to get some writing in and had a kind of epiphany. So, I went back to the novel-in-stories that I discussed in the last post. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
The Story vs. the Writing
Posted in writing on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting Dilemma
Posted in creative process, writing on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Apparently I only post of Fridays now. Time to ‘fess up. Delighted to announce that it’s been another productive week. My writing group gave me incredibly helpful feedback on Sunday which led me to work for 5 hours on a revision on Monday which I then sent to one member who agreed that it [...]
‘Fess up Friday on Saturday
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Busy week. Didn’t track my writing hours but I did write. I finished and sent out a revision to my writing group. The story feels so close. But my major accomplishment this week happened yesterday. I spent hours going through hard copies of stories and organizing them into three binders: 1. a novel-in-stories 2. a [...]
‘Fess Up Friday
Posted in writing on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So it’s my first week of ‘Fess up Fridays and I have to say it was a good one. I put in eight solid hours this week on one story. It’s a revision based on feedback from my writing group. I finished it yesterday then took it to the coffee shop this morning and tried [...]
Green Thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, not jealous thoughts. I don’t usually write about things that aren’t directly related to my creative process here but today I am. It’s about “going green.” That’s the current catch phrase now, isn’t it? Maybe it’s the numerous end-of-the-world-as-know-it type of books that I’ve read lately but I’m finding that I am unable to [...]
Books Read in April
Posted in reading on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Last Chicken in America” a novel in stories by Ellen Litman
I got lucky and found these first two books in the library last week. I didn’t notice that they were both novel in stories. This first one exposes the reader to an entire community that I was not even aware of- Russian immigrants in [...]
