September 2, 2009Musings Novel Push Initiative Anybody who’s hung around here for any length of time knows that I’m a big fan of accountability groups and anything that […]
August 27, 2009Musings The Last Third Our house was built in 1964. It’s a small thing, 1230 square feet without any architectural charm to recommend it. Judging by […]
August 26, 2009Musings Encouragement Vs. Honesty Last night my husband and I went over to have supper with a friend and her fiance. Usually with these sorts of […]
August 25, 2009Musings Meet Mr. Magoo…I Mean MacGuffin I had a really successful day yesterday, turning out 1169 words before dinner. Which is more than I managed in total last […]
August 24, 2009Musings Monday, Monday, Blah Blah, Blah Blah Blah I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn’t Monday. Monday means staff meeting, and–in this particular case–my boss coming back […]
August 19, 2009Musings Repurposed Scenes: Keep or Toss? I set myself a single goal for this week: Finish the nightmare scene. It’s the next scene in the outline. Shouldn’t be […]
August 17, 2009Musings Calling Mississippi Writers! Are you out there? I’ve been feeling kinda lonely lately. Of course, I have several friends here. Lots of people I can […]
August 14, 2009Musings Welcome Back To Mi Vida Loca The way things work around here is that there are about 4 of us (plus a few grad students) on my boss’s […]
August 12, 2009Musings What To Do With Those WTF? Scenes Everybody’s got them. Those scenes that we wrote during our first draft either because a whim told us to or because the […]
August 10, 2009Musings The Meaning of Stuck Since I did my big outline revision several weeks ago, I’ve spent most of my time since then filling in the holes […]