Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 18th, 2007
I sometimes get very sentimental about things that belonged to me when I was growing up. I didn’t necessarily feel that way at the time about my toys or books, but over the years, I’ve come to prize those few things that have somehow miraculously survived.
One such treasure has been right under my nose for [...]
Posted in Writing on Feb 17th, 2007
I recently read an old blog post by a published author who opined that depressed writers produce awful work. Having been depressed for a couple of years, she’s somehow an expert on the topic. Unfortunately, she’s not the only published author who’s expressed this opinion after a similarly brief experience with the illness. At an [...]
Posted in Writing on Feb 14th, 2007
I haven’t received a rejection letter in quite a while, mostly because I stopped sending out queries before the holidays and haven’t started again. Around the beginning of the year, I made some major changes in the direction of my writing career, so it will be another few months before I shop any short stories [...]
Kristin Nelson posted this week about an email she recently received, in which a writer blamed her for destroying his (or her) dreams and said that he was deleting his manuscript. Yeah, we’re always hearing how crazy writers are, and for all I know, someone may really have done this. But something Kristin said about [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 10th, 2007
Most generic astrological predictions don’t do much for me, but Susan Miller’s are another story. I’ve lost count of how many times her monthly Aries horoscopes have been uncannily accurate for me, and in January, she got one thing — a major one — totally on the money, even down to the day. And I [...]
Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
