Please read this by Tess Gerritsen, then let’s discuss.
I’m especially struck by the part about would-be novelists who don’t read.
But go look at it and come back here and let’s talk.
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This is why I do the Friday list. Because last week Jen wrote this:
“Tonight I went out of my way to pick up a pizza at my absolute favorite local place (it’s hard to find decent pizza when you’re a New England transplant in Northern California - trust me on this), and then I [...]
I’m officially driving myself crazy. And maybe some of you, too, while I’m at it.
A few days ago Vivian wrote: “Eegads Robin! I’ve barely made a dent in the clutter at home, and now I have to clean out the clutter in my brain? 50 things!?”
And after reading Tuesday’s list of all the [...]
Sara sent me this comment last night, and I thought it was such an important point, I’d like to address it separately:
“Robin,
I haven’t read SOLD, and I may yet, once I get through the stack on the floor by my chair. But I’ve had bad experiences with non-children’s books on subjects like this. Here’s my [...]
Check out how nice Emma is! She set up a feed for this blog in livejournal. (Just so you know, that’s already way over my head, but I’ll just tell you what she told me.)
If you want to use livejournal to read this on your friend list, you can now go here and [...]
I know I’m not the first person who’s said this, but it’s pretty amazing how broad the category of YA is. It encompasses both Meg Cabot and Patricia McCormick. And I’m happy about that.
So this week I read Patricia McCormick’s Sold. DEVASTATING, but in an important and necessary way. The book [...]
Ever since I started taking this writing business seriously, we’ve had this saying in my house that begins with “A hundred percent of the–”
As in, “A hundred percent of the books that get published were written first. A hundred percent of the writers who have agents actually showed their work to agents.”
You get the [...]
Wow. Last night I read this article by Gail Blanke from Real Simple that Sara linked to in her comment yesterday, and wow.
Apparently cleaning my desk isn’t enough. It’s time to clean my mind.
Please read the whole article, but the part that made the big impression on me was this:
“Now that [...]
This was a week of clearing out clutter, both from my office and from my life, all with an eye toward relieving some stress. Because it became clear to me last weekend that one of the reasons I’ve been feeling like I don’t have time to do all the things I want to do [...]
This is another one of those secrets I’m probably not supposed to reveal, but whatever. I’d want to know if I were on the other side of this blog.
So Random House is putting together a couple of websites for my book–one is already up at biblegrrrl.com, and the other will be a MySpace page–and [...]