Several of my favorite bloggers are doing a daily blog series this month. Modern Mrs.Darcy is doing a series on cult classics (more on that later); Carrie Willard is writing about habits. I briefly considered blogging every day this month, but I have too many writing projects on the table right now: an article on infant sleep […]
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Writing My Fear (Why I Didn’t Want Children)
I’m struggling a little with the current draft of my novel. The novel is written from four perspectives: two younger women named Rachel and Hannah, one younger man named Billy, and an older woman named Greta. I’m happy with the four characters and how their stories compliment each other. Now that I’m getting down into […]
Knowing Your Characters, Knowing Yourself
Sometimes I find it interesting to apply writing advice to real life. Here’s a meaningful one: Get to know your characters before you write. The story will write itself because the characters will tell you what they want to do. Isn’t that a great metaphor for real life? If you get to know yourself well, your […]
The Hunger Games
Since this weekend has been all about the hype surrounding The Hunger Games premiere, I thought I’d re-post my original assessment of the series, posted back in September. I still stand by my opinion that while the first two books were works of creative genius, Suzanne Collins seriously phoned it in on the third. It […]
The Nanny Diaries
A few years ago, I downloaded this book onto my iPod, and every once in awhile (usually in between Harry Potter books) I listen to it again. This book seems to have some amnesic spell, because every time I finish it, I tell myself I’ll never listen to it again, but somehow, a few months […]
In Her Shoes
True to my word, after being pleasantly surprised by Jennifer Weiner’s writing in Then Came You, I went back to try some of her books that I had once rejected. This weekend, when I was packing for a girl’s weekend away, I threw In Her Shoes into my bag. Appropriately, it’s a novel about female […]