Archive for the 'About Writing' Category
Writer’s Read Posted What I’m Reading!
Pretty cool. You can see the entry here.
I’m listening to Cabaret over and over, now on the Joel Grey and Liza Minelli version. Boy, when I get obsessed, I get obsessed. Jeez. I’ve even been listening to it on my walks and runs. In this case its the story - Cabaret has so much in such a [...]
Place and Time in Story
I saw Cabaret at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle last week. Although I have seen the movie, this was the first time I’d seen the play staged. It was fabulous. I also gave some thought as to why it has been such an enduring story. Many works about the same time period have stayed [...]
Writing on the Lake, with the Lake, and Many Others
There are many different kinds of writing workshops. I’ve been tasked to write all night - given a 10,000 word story assignment and told to finish it in 24 hours (yes, its possible). I’ve been on Kelley’s Island in Ohio with some fabulous east-coast and mid-country writers. critiquing novels. It’s good for my soul to [...]
Molly Gloss’s reading
Earlier, I recommended Hearts of Horses, by Molly Gloss. We are, in fact, reading it in the writer’s book group which studies best-selling author’s work. Since I noticed she is touring our area, I went to her reading at the Bellevue Regional Library yesterday. Molly is one of those writers who evokes a really strong [...]
Lazy Indulgences and the Writing Process
Every once in a while, it’s important to take down time. I’m in the school of writer’s who believes a high word count every day matters. I’m using 1,000 words a day for my current book (the third one in the series that starts with The Silver Ship and the Sea). I [...]
Three Gifts from Far Away
Writing is a strange profession. There are long dry spells when everything is in the mail and nothing is resolved or finished. And then there are gift days. Today, I got three gifts from afar….
A copy of Mallorn, the Journal of the Tolkien Society, with a story of mine in it. [...]
Finished First Draft, 2008 Goals
I finished the first draft of THE DOWNBELOW GIRLS this past week and sent it off to a pile of first readers, including two teens as well as the usual suspects - hopefully they’ll have good insights since they’re the target audience. It always feels really great to finish to that extent.
Of course, nothing [...]
Mayan Summer Now Available Online
My story, Mayan Summer, just went up in the online magazine Khimairal Ink. It’s a lovely literary, feminist magazine that I like a lot, so I was pleased they took this story. The Yucatan Penninsula is a fabulous place where it’s easy to imagine magic coming alive. This is a seed story [...]
The Small Joys of Writing
I have a short work coming out in Mallorn, which is the newlstter for the Tolkien society. The story started as an exercise in a workshop I took at Hugo House in Seattle (with Charles deLint), and only changed a little before I sent it off to Henry Gee, who is the new editor [...]
Misc Book News
Apparently SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA was Thanksgiving reading for a few people - I got some compliments on it via email this weekend. That always makes me feel good - a writerly dream is that some stranger will like your work. And then if they do, it’s surprising.
The copyedits for READING [...]
