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Monday, November 12th, 2007Today in the mail came two very important postcards. Remember when I shipped my non-fiction book contest entry with the wrong amount of postage? The postcards were from the contest noting that both my manuscripts had arrived safely. No one noticed that I used the wrong type of label! Whew! NOW we can move on to the [...]
It’s NaNoWriMo time and I’m writing…a kids’ book?
Thursday, November 8th, 2007I really can’t believe it. I mean, it makes sense. I’m a children’s photographer. I used to write kids’ textbooks. I taught school for five years. But, gosh, I’m the purveyor of darkness–seamy literary-drenched tales of disaster and the black nature of humanity. Maybe that’s what led to this sudden and complete reversal. It happened [...]
Fortuitous Moments
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have always seen symbols in things. Often I am wrong about them, but at the time they make sense, and serve their purpose. Yesterday my day got off kilter when I dashed across town to help a friend find her passport so she could get to an interview and fill out her I-9 for a job. [...]
Gearing Up for NaNoWriMo
Friday, October 19th, 2007I do love the fall. When you feel the relief from the heat, the chill rippling across your skin, it relaxes your tension and slows your pace, no longer a rush from air conditioned car to air conditioned house. We can pause a bit, listen to the leaves rustle, push our hair out of our face from [...]
Lessons from Zoom
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Wiggly feet kicked against the back of seats. Popcorn cascaded from little hands to dust the carpeted floor. The movie was ten minutes late starting, and the house was packed. Not because it was a great movie. Because it was free. Every summer the girls and I partake of the Free Family Fun Movie Festivals. [...]
The Writing Life
Monday, May 7th, 2007It’s been an astonishing day for writing. I’d given it up for a bit, seeped myself in photographs, paid some bills, and now find myself longing for words, a desire that has built into an urgency. I can thank Colette for her early morning inspiration in the form of her short story The Hollow Nut. [...]
Flashbacks
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Today, having sent Baby Dust to be copied for a few readers to take a look at, I decided to focus on the rest of my to-do list and get my 2006 receipts entered for taxes. On top was a pile of medical things. I went to the file cabinet to see what folders already [...]
I finished another one
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007I’m saying it here first, before I tell another living soul. Baby Dust is done. I wrote the last sentence two minutes ago. I’ll update you all more on what is going to happen next later, but I’m sitting here bawling my eyes out and the ending worked out better than I thought it could, as [...]
NaNoWriMo Is Done!
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I had to write 50,000 words of a new novel in November. And I did! You readers out there should all do it next year. It’s fun! www.nanowrimo.org
I have a title!
Sunday, November 26th, 2006I have been so struggling with this. I’ve played with babies and angels and mothers and wombs and sorrow and birth and all sort of words. I have pages of combinations but they all came off as too television drama, or nonfiction sounding, or just plain overblown. This morning I lay in bed, stressing over [...]
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