In keeping with my "I don't blog, but might be able to guest blog" philosophy of blogging -- I've done a guest post over at the lovely site Shrinking Violets: Marketing for Introverts.   It's called "How To Get Stuck and Brood: Anti-Advice for Writers."  Here's a taste!  Go read the whole thing.

Things I learned about my writing from learning to ( Read more... )

 For the purposes of grant (among other things) I'm working on a synopsis for my work in progress, Children of Peace.

The Society of Children's Book Wrtiers and Illustrators has this to say about synposes written for their grant competition:

The synopsis may be only three sentences, but must not exceed 750 words. A 250-word/one-page synopsis is the ( Read more... )

Titles. God I hate giving books titles. What makes a good one?

Background: my agent like Plain Kate Carver better than Plain Kate, which she thinks is too much like Sarah, Plain and Tall. I am not crazy about either title, and worry that Plain Kate Carver sounds way too English for a book that was written under the spell of Russian fairy tales. ( Read more... )

The odd thing about fixing my novel -- the problems are never where I think they are ( Read more... )

Scorecard:  1154 words today, for 46,553 words total.  On page 161 of the original 250 page manuscript ( Read more... )