Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Blame, and the novel in the middle of the night
My novel misbehaves in the middle of the night. Last night it woke me up with a start at 2:14 a.m., insisting that I get up out of bed and FIND MY NOTEBOOK and a pen QUICKQUICKQUICK, which are not easy things to locate in the dark at somebody else’s house. (I have been visiting Boston for […]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Come to a writing conference!
[ April 5, 2008; 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. ] My writer friends, Alice Mattison, Leslie Connor, and I are giving an all-day writing conference together, and I couldn’t be more excited. If you’re anywhere near Fairfield, Connecticut on April 5, and you want to get a chance to talk about writing all day long…please come!
Here’s the notice about it that the organizer, Carol Dannhauser, […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Google Talk: out of the mouths of babes
Have you met Google Talk?
I have to admit: I’m on it all the time, whether I want to be or not. It’s the main way I write my novel AND talk to my kids all at the same time. Sort of like major multi-tasking.
I’m getting used to having the little screen […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
March madness: should I try to be perfect?
I was thinking for a while of trying to become perfect.
It’s all because of an article I read in “O” magazine last month–one of those personal experience pieces in which the writer decided she’d do everything just right. I can hear you right now saying, “Oh, yeah? Under what set of rules is what […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Babies and the Dead Tired Society book group
My daughter Allie is a member of a book group consisting of moms with babies. They call themselves the Dead Tired Society and they meet whenever several conditions can be met: (1) they have all read the same book, or nearly all of them, at least; (2) they can agree on a day when a […]