Feeling it

This post over at Through the Tollbooth pretty much cracked me up; well, not the whole thing, and not in a bad way, just the part where Liz Gallagher said, “As I write, I naturally tend to try to feel what my character’s body would be doing given what they’re going through emotionally.” This was [...]

New to me

Briefly: another good thing about having written the MB summary like nine months ago and having a terrible memory is that, because I’m only tapping into it as I need it, I’m sort of finding out what happens like a reader would, one step at a time. I could skip ahead and ruin it (although [...]

Writinertia

I was talking to my roommate about my recent deluge of writing progress this morning and I told her something I’d just realized (or maybe realized again–my memory, it is not so good): I am the law of inertia personified. You know that old saw: an object at rest will stay at rest, whilst an [...]

Internet karma

I keep getting emails about The Weepies. The Weepies are in Sex and the City, playing their [truly lovely] song “All This Beauty”! (Which, like, yeah–The Weepies are going to get people to go see Sex and the City. I’m so sure. If anything, being in Sex will boost Weepies ticket sales. Maybe that was [...]

Reading to learn what people like to read

Agent Kristin Nelson has been blogging about publishing for a while now, and she is probably one of the best agent bloggers out there because she posts almost every weekday and she always has really interesting stuff to say about the business that is both informative and entertaining. Today her post was a continuation of [...]

An overabundance of shit to do

For the past several weeks now, I keep looking forward to each weekend and telling myself, “THIS weekend you’ll do laundry and go grocery shopping and maybe buy a new summer skirt and catch up on your sleep and your Netflix and read and WRITE, for God’s sake.” And, each week, foiled! This is actually [...]

A little perspective

I’m so sure y’all have seen this on, like, a hundred million other writing/book/publishing blogs and websites already, but just in case you haven’t, please watch this video: Oh my God, is that not the funniest thing ever? It’s all so true. My favorite quote? “YouTube. Of course. ‘Cause you know that’s the dream, right? [...]

Sneak peekery

Okay, so I might get in a lot of trouble for this and I might have to take it down someday (hey, I don’t know the rules about revealing stuff before your agent goes to publishers or whatnot!), but some other writers are doing this meme with their unpubbed works and since Diana Peterfreund tagged [...]

Bad timing

You know when the worst time to get your ARC of John Green’s new YA novel, Paper Towns, is? When you’re doing revisions on your own novel, and you’re only halfway done. Lesson learned! Also, loving Twilight this time around.

Drive-by post: Proof that she knows me better than almost anyone else

A letter I got from my friend Kim in the mail yesterday: I know this card is super random, but I liked them and it was either Adventureland or Tomorrowland and I thought since Adventureland is right near New Orleans Square, which has Pirates (Orlando Bloom!) and has Indiana Jones (Shia LaBoeuf!) that it would [...]