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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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Phases (Moon)
As I drove myself and the dog home from dropping the boy off at summer day camp (where they create 4th of July art, squirt water at each other, learn how to play Red Rover and build Lego creations all … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Pets, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, cats, chaos, dog, domestic bliss, Full moons, preschoolers, summer camp, writer's angst, writing, yoga
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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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Not A Zombie
1. Recently I slouched on a bale of hay, waiting for my son to appear at the bottom of a tube slide attached to a combine machine turned playset. A boy of about 10 popped out of the slide first, … Continue reading
Posted in dog, Fiction, Pets, Writer's Angst, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, chaos, Easter egg hunt, fiction writing, Jesus, Kindle Fire, ocean, personal goals, preschoolers, writer's angst, zombies
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Deadline Mayhem
With a house full of in-laws, 1 out-of-his-brain-with-excitement preschooler, visiting dogs, horrified puking and peeing everywhere cats, a small crew installing the new dishwasher and ceiling fans and outdoor sensor lighting, much celebrating involving caramel cakes, Seuss stuffs and misbehaving golfclubs, 1 courtesy-of-kind-in-laws date night … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Me and Us, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, domestics, grant deadlines, Kinko's, personal goals, preschoolers, writer's angst
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Blog Break: Yes, Kony 2012
Click here for the movie. Scroll 1/2 way down their page. Watch. If you haven’t seen the film yet, it’s 27 minutes short and after the first 5 minutes you don’t care how long it is. If, like me, you … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, dog, Fiction, Me and Us, Writer's Angst, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2012, cats, domestics, Invisible Children, Kony 2012, preschoolers, writer's angst, writing, Yaks
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Quote For The Weekend (Churchill Edition)
Anticipating the arrival of this plaque for my bedroom office so that every time I glance up from revising, whether it’s going well, or whether I’m making ghastly grammatical errors, whether my mind is filled with creative synapses, or is … Continue reading
Posted in books, Fiction, Quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, personal goals, quotes on writing, Winston Churchill, writer's angst, writer's block
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Oak Ents
This was the morning: camellias and oak trees. And koi ponds, a small, very green lake with coots and mallards drifting, a Japanese garden with an unattended snack bar my son immediately took over, stepping behind the counter (which came … Continue reading
Posted in Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, Descanso Gardens, fiction writing, oak trees, writer's angst, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Pulled Muscle Edition)
“Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors–anything.” —Gloria Steinem I opened the door to my son’s classroom and an invisible claw grabbed the muscles in my right side and … Continue reading
Time Spent
Roaming the house looking for my reading glasses when on top of head entire time: a good 15 minutes (additional minutes tacked on when distracted by each room’s white elephant: mound of clean yet hopelessly wrinkled laundry on guest room bed, … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Pets, To Explain, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2012, children's literature, fiction writing, Llamas, Starry, starry night, tapas, Van Gogh, writer's angst, writing
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Writing During The Holidays
My laptop sits on the kitchen counter as I cook. Right hand stirring the dumpling mixture, my left hand’s floury fingers type (not skillfully), Have you a mind to sink, the woman weeps to those gathered in the room, to … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Pets, To Explain, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2011, Christmas Spirit, creative process, preschoolers, whales, writer's angst
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Supernova (Boom, Crash)
When I’m tired, it shows. I don’t have bags under my eyes resembling Hugh Hefner’s ball sack (thank you, Crazy Stupid Love for that line, crud from a movie so crazy sexist it was: Stupid), but I miss things, like windows … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Writer's Angst, WTF
Tagged 2011, Crazy Stupid Love, fiction writing, personal goals, supernova, writer's angst, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Exhausted Edition)
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. —Antonin Artaud When I was in my early twenties, I kept a postcard with his image on it fastened to … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Theatre, Writer's Angst
Tagged 2011, Antonin Artaud, life, Theatre of Cruelty, writer's angst
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NBF Torture
I find this disturbing and wrong and a certain deeply suspicious/dark sunglasses wearing/fedora sporting/trenchcoat draped (except not in this heatwave)/notebook carrying (yeah, enough already) part of me wonders what the real story is. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD YOUNG ADULT NOMINEES ARE BACK … Continue reading
Posted in books, Fiction, Quotes, Writer's Angst, WTF
Tagged 2011, children's literature, Lauren Myracle, National Book Award 2011, Shine, writer's angst, writing
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Not Avoiding My Writing
See previous post. Now read this: THE PASSAGE OF AT LEAST 2 UNINTERRUPTED HOURS There is no blogging when working. There is no Hulu and bad actors living with dinosaurs. No Elephant Man. No social network. No Internet. They just. … Continue reading
The Elusive Palomino
As I was writing/editing and avoiding my laptop’s Internet connection in my bed office yesterday (see canny Zadie Smith quote from previous post), utilizing the sweet patch of me-as-writer time following leg-destroying yoga and before I was to pick my son up … Continue reading
Posted in Adult writing, Avoiding My Writing, books, Fiction, middle grade, Poetry, poetry reading, Quotes, Writer's Angst, Writing, Writing Progress
Tagged 2011, fiction writing, middle grade writing, Modern Family, palominos, personal goals, poetry, preschoolers, TV, writer's angst, writing, Zadie Smith
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Quotes Via Imagine
These are floating around Facebook right now thanks to Imagine Marketing. Let the Quotes For The Midweek begin! PS. I love Jennifer Egan. She was a guest at Bread Loaf when I was there and she was so friendly and … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Writing
Tagged 2011, Facebook, Jennifer Egan, quotes on writing, writer, writer's angst, writer's block, writing
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Notes From The Armchair
And how is it going, PB, in your newly rediscovered armchair? Are you working under favorable conditions? Or does the scent of cat pee distract you, just as you’ve made yourself comfortable, laptop on lap, glass of wine on the bookshelf next … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Me and Us, Pets, Steps In Promotion, To Explain, Writer's Angst, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2011, cats, creamsicles, domestic bliss, domestics, fiction writing, life, personal goals, writer's angst
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DUMMY
I have a new special writing/revising trick. Starting with the first three chapters of my novel, I copy and paste them into a brand new fresh document, print, then edit/revise/correct/read-aloud/enhance/make-marvelous, etc. I throw the hardcopy edits into the brand new … Continue reading
Quote For The Weekend (Late Edition Due To—Due To—Hm? Wot? Is Someone Speaking? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!)
I made up my mind at the beginning of my writing life not to write about my family and friends, since I want them to remain my family and friends. Others, it seems, have come to a similar conclusion. The … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Writing
Tagged 2011, Carol Shields, fiction, fiction writing, The Stone Diaries, writer, writer's angst, writer's block, writing
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