You can read the whole post (which is worth it not only for the part I’m about to excerpt, but for the video at the end of it), but here’s some advice from Meg Cabot that I thought my fellow writers would appreciate:
“Q: Look, i want to be a writer, but i feel i [...]
I do some of my best thinking in writing. So yesterday I sat myself down and wrote eight pages to myself about how I’m going to make this all work out.
Because somehow I have not one, but two books due at the end of January. Hahahahaha! But I am not hysterical!
So anyway, [...]
Hey, y’all, I’m about to head to Phoenix for a book signing at the Arizona Library Association conference, so I’ll be on the road and off-line for a while.
But I wanted to leave you with something to ponder, so check this out.
I think we all need to hear this more than once, and from as [...]
No novels this week. Instead some reading on the Tao and Chi Nei Tsang (remember this? That’s Chi Nei Tsang). (By the way, I couldn’t remember what I called that post, so I just did a search on my blog for “belly poking.” I’m laughing right now as I type [...]
A friend of mine is moving across the country this week. When trying to decide whether to pack up the old house and move it item by item to the new, a trusted adviser told him, “Go Spartan.”
And I can’t seem to get that idea out of my head.
Maybe it’s because I also saw [...]
I really like this. I love it when the Space Lord busts out with some real-life wisdom. Lots to think about in that post. Lots of it so true, and I’ll bet you know exactly whom he’s talking about from your own life, eh? Or (think about it) is he talking [...]
My nice things this week involve the phone. I, like many of you, have that insane Pavlovian need to answer any ringing telephone. If I hear one go too long in a department store or restaurant, I want to reach over and answer that one, too.
But this week, in an effort to re-establish [...]
I was kind of surprised nobody bit at my P.S. from that post a few days ago. But I’m interested in your thoughts on it, so here it is again:
P.S. Part of this is also learning how not to tell other people what they should do. And if you don’t think that’s hard . [...]
Yay! I read one of the books on my end-of-year list! Love it when I actually do what I say I want to do.
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King was AMAZING. Complex and shocking, a complete surprise from the very beginning. I stayed up until 11:00 three nights in a row, then [...]
Somebody has to do it. In fact, all of us need to do it (I won’t say “should” do it, as you’ll understand in a moment). I’m willing to be on the front lines. Hope you’ll all join me.
I’m over “should.” Really, seriously over it. As in don’t ever want [...]