I gave an interview last week where I talked about how I generally write novels for the girl I was at 15.
You know who else writes novels for my 15-year-old self? Stephenie Meyer. I just finished Eclipse last night, and let my teenage self express how she feels:
(((****SIGH****Boys****Will I Ever Have a Boyfriend?****I [...]
Nothing like a well-timed e-mail from your agent to snap you back to reality.
Folks, as much as I like to pretend it’s an endless summer, the fact is I have a deadline in three weeks. A bright, new, shiny manuscript must be finished. So it’s time I go into the cave [...]
I really loved this discussion over at Big A little a earlier this week, never guessing I’d have my own situation to discuss so soon afterward.
So yesterday I was at Safeway, buying my corporate organics (the farmers market didn’t have mozzarella for my homemade pizza, for example, and even though Barbara Kingsolver makes her own, [...]
I grew up in the desert Southwest, which means I can pretty much have beans and salsa every day of the week if I want. And sometimes I do want. It’s as much a part of my childhood as peanut butter and jelly. And these past couple of months, since I’ve recommitted [...]
I know it’s not just me. And I know it’s not even just writers. I’ve had this conversation lately with a musician and a photographer, too. At some point we wake up and notice that we’ve stopped creating our particular art, because we’re so busy managing the business of our art.
Like this [...]
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On our long road trip, listened to 14 1/2 hours of an audio book that I guarantee has changed my life: Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It’s about her family’s one-year experiment in eating only what they could grow or buy from local farmers. Incredible. It will change how you think [...]
You know it’s going to be a great backpacking experience when it begins and ends with your pants off.
About a hundred feet from the car was a modest little wooden arrow with the word “Trail” stamped into it. We could see the trail, all right–just on the other side of a deep, cold, churning [...]
You know it’s hard for me to leave, in part because I never know what I’ll miss (what did Liz call it a few weeks ago? FMS syndrome–’fraid of missing something), and I’ll especially miss seeing your Friday lists, but the fact is it’s time to head out into the wilderness again, this time [...]
Hey, everyone, I’m heading into the wild again tomorrow, so if you don’t mind, let’s have our Tuesday Book Club today.
When you’re backpacking, weight is the issue. So it’s only paperbacks, and often it’s a paperback cut in half (I know! It hurts to do it!). This time I took 90 Minutes [...]