“I love this so much, I want to cry.” Those were the words running through my head all weekend, as I traversed the halls of the Roosevelt Hotel from conference session to keynote speech to networking event. Not the most poetic thought, maybe, but it echoed what was in my heart. I love writing, talking […]
writer's digest
The Write and the Re-Write, Part 1
In my very first fiction writing class, my teacher mentioned an author he knew who would write an entire first draft of a novel, then erase it- literally delete it from his computer– and start his re-write from scratch. My fellow students and I were appalled. I couldn’t imagine doing all that work and then […]
Conference Recap/August Mini-Series
As I wrote about in last week’s post, It’s Worth The Fear, I went to a writing conference this past weekend- the Writer’s Digest conference in New York City. Now I feel like a bit of a fraud for previously reporting that I had any element of fear about attending this conference. Sure, I was nervous […]