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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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All Heated Up (With Spiders)
We are experiencing triple digit weather. Triple digits means hatchings and unwelcome visitors indoors. Cloth-eating moths. Black widows. Giant waterbugs, which I call cockroaches, which my husband insists are waterbugs—regardless, they make the cats crazy in the middle of the night and startle … Continue reading
Posted in books, Children's Books, Fiction, Me and Us, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, black widows, Elizabth Peters, fiction writing, He Shall Thunder In The Sky, heatwaves, life, preschoolers, writing
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Links Time
It’s been a week of discovering useful blog links. I’ve hopped from link to link and then some, pausing only to drop the boy off at summer camp, pick him up, play Batman & Dinosaurs, fix dinner, twist myself into … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged 2012, Alexandra Sokoloff, Beth Hull, children's literature, creative commons, fiction, middle grade writing, paninis, Pinterest, Pub Rants, public domain, Talia Vance, Veronica Rossi, wikimedia commons, writing, YA Highway, YA Muses
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Deep Summer Checkpoint
Two summers ago I wrote: I create escape beneath my yard’s wind- bent gazebo, books on spread gingham, the shrunk house I dragged into our shade, ticking stove, stranger’s voice in the toy wall phone he refuses. Create with a … Continue reading
Quote For The Weekend (Heatwave Edition)
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good? Such thinking, in the words of … Continue reading
Posted in books, Fiction, Writer quotes, Writing
Tagged 2012, Author quotes, heatwaves, life, Paul Shepard, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, writing
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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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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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Askew In The Valley
My poem is out in Askew Poetry Journal’s Issue #12 Spring/Summer 2012 (here’s the link to Askew in case you’re interested in submitting or subscribing). They also have a Facebook page with samples of poetry from this issue. Dorothea Grossman’s poems are a delight … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, Writing, Writing Publications
Tagged 2012, Askew Poetry Journal, Dorothea Grossman, Holly Prado, poetry, sonnets, writing
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Author Interview #1: Bridget Hoida And SO LA
Introducing Bridget Hoida, whose first novel, So LA, is due out in bookstores June 20th. I happen to personally know that Bridget is brilliant, but I can also tell you without a hint of bias that she writes about Los Angeles with … Continue reading
Posted in books, Fiction, Writing
Tagged 2012, Bridget Hoida, California, fiction, fiction writing, Joan Didion, Los Angeles, Michael Ventura, Robert McKee, So LA, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Father’s Day Edition)
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. —Bill Cosby LATELY, our preschooler insists that … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Writer quotes
Tagged 2012, Bill Cosby, Dubai, Father's Day, Lego, Ninjago, preschoolers, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Ray Edition)
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Quotes, Writer quotes, Writing
Tagged 2012, quotes on writing, Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, The Veldt, writing
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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
Guest Blogging
Yesterday, which I thought was Sunday due to the 3 day weekend and synapses firing improperly or not at all after my husband and I watched a late-night Sunday (which I thought was Saturday) Mad Men marathon accompanied by intensely seasoned … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Books, Fiction, Writing, YA Novels
Tagged 2012, beach, children's literature, fiction writing, Santa Rosa Island, writing, YA Muses
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Quote For The Weekend (Wildlife Edition)
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made … Continue reading
Trickle-Down Poem For May (Thank You, April)
Full Flower Moon May (mostly), the petticoat swirl of rising pink meadow, petite showers, buds. I say: rose, peony, phlox. And I say: petal- shorn, plucked, blown until only the head remains, one pale sticky oval crushed by u- niverse … Continue reading
Spring Spirit Conference, 2012
What a delightfully smooth, well-run, 1 day conference. As I drove away, the GPS taking me on a spooky off-the-freeway-then-back-on mini-adventure, as I sped past miles of crops (previously mist-blanketed, cooling off from a day of baking in 93 degrees), … Continue reading
Quote For The Weekend (Roadtrip Edition)
What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2012, Jack Kerouac, On The Road, poetry, USC, writing
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Quote For The Weekend (Rich Edition)
Sleeping, turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep… —Adrienne Rich Diving Into The Wreck made such an impression on me … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, Writer quotes
Tagged 2012, Adrienne Rich, Diving Into The Wreck, poetry, writing
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