Last week, I sat in my tub Tornado Alley-style (because jackhammers outside my house) to talk with my first GrubStreet writing instructor, James Scott, all-around good guy and author of the [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. I read somewhere that readers don’t want to know how a book gets made. Don’t reveal the magic! Let the creative process remain a mystery! But this is a site [...]
Day Date at the Museums, Fairyland Review, Boy Erased, Novel 2 Revision Doesn’t Suck, and #holdthedoor
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Highlights My girlfriend treated me to an all-day date last Sunday. We started in Harvard at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Peabody is a wonderful little museum full of [...]
Highlights To celebrate the completion of a project this week, my GF and I headed to Tupelo, our favorite southern restaurant. Along with an order of ribs and Mississippi Mud pie, our favorite [...]
Highlights Novel 2: still in progress. Still feeling good about it. My deadline for second draft completion is 12/31/15. That’s not a ton of time, but I work best under pressure. Deadlines [...]
Highlights I broke through the Novel 2 wall of despair that I recounted in my latest Dead Darlings post. I needed to go through my whinycrankybabybitchypants phase of the process. And I got a [...]
Another year, another revision. This time, I’m revising the second draft of a second novel. I began writing this draft one year ago. The fact that I’ve not only finished a draft but [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. Character profiles are great for first drafts. I fill out a ton of those for each character. I cast my characters with favorite TV and movie stars. I create [...]