Lynne Simpson

Courtney has a post up about movie log lines for book pitches at writing conferences, and like I said there, I’m AWFUL at them. For one thing, I’m not current enough on pop culture to know which well-known stories my books are like. Any examples I could come up with would be historical events, ancient [...]

…in writing projects these days. Although I usually try to pace myself and work on only one thing at a time, it’s just not turning out that way. I’m grateful for the influx of energy and inspiration, sure, but sheesh! :-)
And when I’m not writing or swimming, I’m gardening. This year, the tomatoes are as [...]

John and I have been doing some running in the pool as well as just plain swimming, and I noticed recently that a vortex would start forming after he’d run only three or four laps in the shallow end. If I’m treading water under the diving board while he’s running, it’s all I can do [...]

The recent kerfuffle over deletion of old posts at BoingBoing raised a lot of interesting questions. (Not going to link to it — you can find it easily on their site or half a dozen others.) Some of the commenters on the huge thread at BB admitted to having deleted irrelevant or somehow “inconvenient” old [...]