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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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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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Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo…

30.06.2010

Surprises? I can take or leave them. Yesterday, I loved them. I’ve been keeping my distance from my MG WIP, circling around it, poking at it with a stick. Just when I was ready to chew myself out for procrastinating not sitting down and working on it, a rush of ideas found me—for another manuscript [...]

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Outlines (Again)

20.06.2010

I think I’m haunted by outlines. I found a quote today to justify my dislike of traditional, the-kind-you-had-to-do-in-school-and-hated, outlines. It’s from Ray Bradbury and I found it in the Spring 2010 issue of The Paris Review. When the interviewer asked him if he wrote outlines, Bradbury said: No, never. You can’t do that. It’s just [...]

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