Trying to set a good example here. Yes, it’s been a hectic week, but I’m still trying to keep my eye on priorities. So I’ve been working hard at revising my current manuscript–finished the first pass through it yesterday, and now on to pass number two–but I’ve also set aside two or three [...]
Bit of a time crunch here, friends. My previously self-imposed deadline to turn in my new manuscript has now become an editor- and agent-imposed deadline (or let’s just say “preference,” which I’m hearing as “deadline”). So all that leisurely, I’m-taking-the-summer-off kind of attitude is officially out the window for the next week or [...]
Here’s how I feel about Tonks: I want to be her. Sometimes I pretend I am her. I do weird things with my hair color, I walk with a certain self-confidence I might not feel at that particular moment, I might even say things like, “Wotcher, Harry!” if only I knew what [...]
Um . . . .
I read a book a few days ago about how we all have both The Tyrant and The Rebel inside us, and one is more dominant than the other, but it always triggers the other one.
Tyrant: Fabulous. A contest. A competition. Mother Reader says we’re all reading [...]
You know how when you don’t buy something expensive, you get to credit that extra money to yourself? So you skip the overpriced tchotchke (yes, that is how you spell it) and have an extra $50 or whatever to spend on something else.
Yesterday I had planned on flying to New York. And since [...]
Remember where we all were just a year ago? I was just beginning my official editor-requested edits for Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, and my best writer pal Barry Lyga was twiddling his thumbs, waiting for his first novel The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl to come out in September, [...]
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I’m sure there are other people like me, but I don’t personally know any adult who is as into make-believe as I am. I’m not just talking casual pretend, but deep chameleon-like behavior.
I’m so easily influenced by movies and TV. Depending on what I’m watching, I [...]
Just got back from seeing Waitress, starring Keri Russell, and I think it might be my favorite movie of the year so far. Funny, quirky, heart-tugging, and with such sumptuous pies it makes you want to rush home and whip up a dozen of them yourself–especially since Keri makes it look so easy, like [...]
Just in case you didn’t find every one of these links on your own yesterday, please allow me supply them:
The Massage, from Meg Cabot’s blog;
The trailer that makes me SO HAPPY, from Barry Lyga’s blog;
This deeply insightful and important post from HipWriterMama; and
Diana Peterfreund’s post on our discussion from yesterday, about Pleasure and Self-Denial.
Watch, [...]
If you didn’t see it yet or aren’t prepared to talk about it, then please skip down to the shipper part.
[Lost part:]
Okay, so it’s the future. But not THE future, because Jack’s father is still alive. So it’s A future, right?
And Charlie. Couldn’t he have gotten out, and then both of them [...]