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Category Archives: Writer’s Angst
Update: NaMeSiDifStaDaiWri(expletive)Po
I forgot to go on Monday. Ummm…And here is a cat.
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, cats, fiction writing, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Starbucks
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NaMeSiDifStarDaiWri%#*Po Week (Partial Week Edition)
Next week (because my son resumes PreK after a 2 week spring break) is National PB Sit in a Different Starbucks Daily and Write a (insert expletive) Poem Week. Well, at least monday through thursday. Actually not tuesday because that’s when I … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, books, Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry, Writer's Angst, WTF
Tagged 2013, April Poetry Month, children's literature, fiction writing, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, preschoolers, salted caramel frappucinos, Sarbucks, writer's block, writer's retreat, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Unchaste Edition)
True poets should be chaste, I know, but wherefore should their lines be so? —Catullus (Gaius Valerius, of course…) Of course he loved Lesbia! Sheesh. Get over it. Hopefully he ultimately got over it, IF he wasn’t 30 when he … Continue reading
Posted in Adult writing, Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Poetry, poetry reading, Writer quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, Catullus, fiction writing, life, poetry, quotes on writing, Rome, Sappho, Whole Foods, writer, writer's angst, writing
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Courage! (Neigh Edition)
I was late to retrieve the boy from school because I Face Sucked like a fiend AND watched the latest episode of “Once” on hulu AND in another open hulu tab caught up on the latest episode of “Revenge” WHILE checking … Continue reading
Posted in Adult writing, Avoiding My Writing, books, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Pets, Steps In Promotion, Writer's Angst, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2013, chaos, children's literature, Downton Abbey, Facebook, fiction writing, horses, hulu, life, Los Angeles, Masterpiece Theatre, middle grade writing, Once Upon A time, personal goals, preschoolers, Revenge, smoothies, writer, writer's angst, writing
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To All Rejections
To all rejections: I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am building a cathedral. I am … Continue reading
Posted in books, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Poetry, Quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Progress, Writing Publications, Writing Tips, WTF, YA Novels
Tagged 2013, cathedrals, children's literature, empires, fiction writing, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, quotes on writing, Salisbury Cathedral, writer, writer's angst, writing
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Flu 2
When I’m sick like this (somewhere near the darker side of the middle line between healthy and barely-not-dead), my limbs melted into the mattress, not asleep, though not alert, vaguely hearing my son and husband pretend-Kung-Fu in the living room, my brain distresses … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, Aimee Bender, children's literature, fiction writing, flu, Hollywood, Kauai, Marcel Proust, ocean, writing
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Birthday Edition
On the eve of my hubbadobubbaboblah birthday: tucked my son into Pre-K, FB’d (i.e. avoided yoga), did yoga, even Superman, even V-ups, edited poems, sighed at the unicycle, edited poems, zoomed the boy to karate testing for his green stripe … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, books, Faction, Fiction, Me and Us, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, birthdays, chaos, Coldplay, Downton Abbey, Elbow, fiction writing, Joan Collins, karate, Lego, poetry, preschoolers, time, unicycle, writing, yoga
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Gopher Genius
Today, over on Nebula, writer Beth Hull’s website, Colonel Shifty offers up some vital, handy-dandy definitions of publishing terms. Secretly (or not) I am hoping that Colonel Shifty’s next post will be to announce the launch of his gopher T-shirt line–perhaps similar to … Continue reading
Quote For The Weekend (About Ends Edition)
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. —Nikki Giovanni Recently Write Naked posted this quote … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2012, Alison Lurie, John Steinbeck, Nikki Giovanni, poetry, quotes on writing, Slyvia Plath, The Truth About Lorin Jones, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (The Let’s Pretend It’s Still Saturday Edition)
Quote potpourri! Quote jambalaya! Quote papier mache! Quote mixed bean salad (with balsamic vinaigrette and BPA-free writing instruments)! There is no need for a writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell what mutton tastes like. It … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Theatre, Writer quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2012, Antonin Artaud, Dorothy Parker, fiction writing, Ionesco, Maughm, quotes on writing, Thoreau, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (The “I Totally Forgot” Edition)
Finally going to read the book. The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing – rare but profound – remains at the true heart of the enterprise. … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Writer quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2012, Batcave, Earl Of Oxford, earthquakes, fiction writing, Francis Bacon, Jeffrey Eugenides, La Brea Tar Pits, labradoodles, LACMA, Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender, preschoolers, Pulitzer, Shakespeare, Shame, The Marriage Plot, We Bought A Zoo, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Saroyan Edition)
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Writer quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged 2012, English walnuts, fiction writing, quotes on writing, William Saroyan, writer's angst, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Make Believe Edition–Or IS it)
When it was decided (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, … Continue reading
When Agents Call (Others)
If you’re agent hunting, you’re going to want to click on over to Beth Hull’s website for installments 1 and 2 of how she procured her literary agent. I find such stories fascinating. And Beth’s pieces are accompanied by drawings that always make … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Writer's Angst, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, Beth Hull, Literary Agents, writing, YA Novels
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Short Story Writing Drama
Because I’ve been a Glimmer Train Finalist several times and, once, long ago, when GT published poetry, a Top 25 Finalist, and because, of course, GT is one of the best fiction journals in the country, I subscribe and receive … Continue reading
Pig Wings
This M’s Day I opened up the kind of box obviously designed for special gifts and found a glass pig. According to the teeny tiny piece of paper that comes with her, the pig’s name is Penelope. Nestled into satiny … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Pets, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2012, fiction writing, Mother's Day, pigs with wings, preschoolers, writer's angst, YA Muses
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Quote For The Weekend (Feverish Edition)
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. —Henry David Thoreau In the cocoon with a flashlight. Outside of it all, I hear … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Writer quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2012, Health, Henry David Thoreau, Writer quotes, writer's angst
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Get Thee To Rivendale
Whenever I feel the slightest hint of a scratchy throat, whenever I’m knocking back the EmergenC or playing The Ladybug Game for the 5th time with a box of tissues in my lap, whenever I’m carrying on despite what I know … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Writer's Angst, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, chaos, fiction writing, Frodo, Gollum, Ikea, LOTR, preschoolers, writer's angst, yoga
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