(ICYMI: Part 1) Usually, I give myself an hour between waking up and needing to be out the door. I guess the nice thing about waking up on Yom Kippur is how much you don’t need to do. On Yom Kippur, you don’t have to make breakfast. You don’t have to…
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop,” the King of Hearts tells the eponymous heroine of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Sometimes, writing advice can feel like that. “Never submit a manuscript that isn’t polished,” we’ll read on agents’ blogs and editors’ Twitter.…
Sometimes, I like to plan. “Well, no s***, Sarah,” I hear some of you say. “You made intricate trails of themed and complex clues for fun! You have every book you own arranged in perfect order on your bookshelves! You used to create floorplans and down-to-5-minutes itineraries for your grade-school slumber parties!”…
Last year, I set some goals for myself for the year. Now that we’re here in 2015, let’s see how well 2014 measured up. … OK, fine. Let’s see how well I measured up in 2014. (Spoilsports). Drum roll, please!