Query Prep: Researching Agents
Luckily for me, I enjoy research. I like doing a quick search and seeing if I hit anything interesting on the first try. I like going down rabbit holes. And I like pulling my discoveries together into some kind of recognizable order. All of which is a good thing. Because, as I started getting serious […]
Moving On: New Plan, New Path
So for the past few months, I’ve been working to get a draft of the WIP done, for the possibility that I would get accepted into a SCBWI mentorship program. Best laid plans and all that, lots of reasons, that plan didn’t work out. But I still have my finished draft! My goal for this […]
Leveling Up on Craft (Hopefully)
I wrote this post just before the election. And since then it has felt off and unimportant and irrelevant to be sticking it up on the Internet. It felt all of that to even be prioritizing my writing. But as I talked about here, creativity is still important, even if all it does is let us […]
There’s Plotting and there’s Planning…and Then There are Surprises
I’m a plotter, never a pantser. Would I love to be (more of) a pantser. Oh, heck, yes. In writing and in life. In life, I’m a planner, although I will stake a claim to have loosened up at least somewhat in the last decade or so. But I love and use lists and calendars, and […]
What’s It All About, Alfie? It Being this Writing Thingamabob!
When I was little, I named my pet guinea pig after this song, even though I’m not sure I’d even heard it. Something about the title… And it’s what came into my mind today, when I was thinking about this post. I spent part of the morning working on my WIP, alternating with popping on […]
Changes
Two statements of fact: The earth does not, as much as it seems, stay still in one spot. It rotates on its axis, and it orbits the sun. I wrote a scene this morning. There is, actually, a connection between those two facts. And that connection is in the post title: Changes. July seems an […]
Balancing Love and Ambition
Last week, Jordan Rosenfeld blogged about getting back to the joy of writing. She posed the question: “What would it be like if you wrote because it made you feel worthy, bigger, and joyful?” This is a very important question, I think. My basic answer was the one I always come back to–the dreams I […]
A Little Snippet on Writing Nonfiction for Kids
News Flash: I am no expert in this genre. But it’s one I’m trying to stretch myself into, another curve I’m trying to include on my writing path. So you’re going to get bits & pieces about it here, as I work along and figure out the process. The last few weeks I’ve been working […]
Thankful Thursday: Ideas
I think I’ve talked here before about how I used to be a one-idea person. I had one idea for many years, and I wrote on it and wrote on it and wrote on it and sort of revised, and–honestly–it never went anywhere. So I was really glad when another idea came along. And that […]
More Thoughts on Juggling and Balance
The Writing Path. That’s part of my blog title, but I haven’t mused out loud about it here for a while. There’s a thought, or a few semi-connected thoughts, that have been simmering in my mind for a while. I’ve put off blogging, because I don’t want it to sound like whining, but what the […]
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