(But first… happy birthday, Grace! Yaaaaaay!) Almost every how-to writing book you can find advises would-be writers to read extensively. This is sound advice. Reading a lot of what you want to write helps you to understand it viscerally the same way doing lots of math problems is a different…
… is now I have to explain how horribly I did with last year’s resolutions.
This year, I feel like there are so many things I learned about myself and the world that I can’t put them all in a list of the most important. And some are kind of personal, so I don’t really want to share them — at least, not in the…
(Monday post = better late than never! On the other hand, it seems I have pneumonia, so maybe that’s more of a reason than an excuse?) I feel the same way about Christmas as I feel about drinking scotch, scrapbooking, or keeping kosher: it’s a chosen activity that makes some…
DISCLAIMER: Your life is not my life, and I don’t claim to know enough about this stuff to be able to vouch for its safety 100%. All I know is, I haven’t had a problem with it yet. 1. Free online post-secondary courses (specifically, Coursera)
Or, how to write a book, no matter how bad, that Sarah will devour. It’s simple — all you have to do is cram in one or more of the following:
… I’m thinking about fiction, and you will be, too. (WARNING: due to the nature of this discussion, this blog entry will contain swear words and references to works that depict graphic violence. No graphic violence in the blog itself, though.) The first novel manuscript I ever wrote was called Just…
The weird thing is, normally I’m a subtitle kind of gal. I don’t like listening to TV at high volumes. And some shows, like The Wire, just make a whole lot more sense when I can see names spelled out or hear what mumblers are saying in the background. In fact,…
Decisions, decisions. If you call the new set of guidelines you came up with for yourself your philosophy, you sound like Charlie Brown’s little sister. If you call it a manifesto, you sound like Marx. For lack of a better word, since the resolutions I’ve put together are (I hope)…
One time I prayed: every other weekday, in Hebrew school