From the monthly archives:

July 2010

It’s So Not About You

28.07.2010

Once in a while a student will ask me to not spare anything in critiquing their work. (And I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. No, wait. Let me revise. I’m not surprised.) I can be way too honest when it comes to telling you what’s wrong with your manuscript. It’s easy. I’m focusing on [...]

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Did You Know?

25.07.2010

Here are ten five three things I bet you didn’t know about me . . . One: I lived in Greece for three months when I was sixteen. Every afternoon, because it was so hot, I walked through Plaka and up the Acropolis where it was cooler. There is a spot on the northern Parthenon [...]

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Enough Already With The Heat

19.07.2010

It’s hot, and humid. It’s been hot, and humid. I hate hot, and humid. I’m not too thrilled with just plain hot, either. I’ve been joshing around with my students, saying I could do for a few inches of snow about now. And I could. Really. When it gets like this, weather-wise, and goes on [...]

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Ignore Your Character?

14.07.2010

Okay, ignore may be misleading. New ideas, for me, come via a character. My protagonist is the first thing that shows him or herself. And, up to now, I’ve been going with that character and focusing on him or her. But I also have such a difficult time with first drafts that I keep thinking [...]

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