I haven’t felt like updating here in last week or so, due to various issues going on right now. They’re not super huge issues, and they’ve mostly been resolved for now, but once I was in that funk, I didn’t really feel like writing about writing here. I didn’t think I had anything relevant to … Read more
Today’s news post on Dear Author had a link to a blog post about literary fiction (lit fic) and how lit fic readers don’t want to read on e-readers–they want want physical books. http://www.davidhewson.com/blog/2012/8/8/ebooks-is-it-a-genre-thing-definitely.html But the topic of this post isn’t about lit fic and what lit fic readers will and won’t read on, since … Read more
All my writing efforts of the last few weeks have been spent on revising and rewriting my first finished novel. And boy, does it need it. Just as this WIP was my first real effort at writing a novel, these revisions are my first real effort at revising a novel. In the process, I’m finding … Read more
The past few months I’ve let my writing fall by the wayside. I did finish a very rough first draft of my first novel, and I had every intention of revising it, but somehow, life got in the way. You know, kids, working two part time jobs, keeping up with the house, pregnancy #3, blah … Read more
First off, I wrote a guest review of Kaki Warner’s Heartbreak Creek for The Good, the Bad, and the Unread. You can find it here. And go buy all of Kaki Warner’s books, right now. I’ll wait. I realize I’m not updating regularly like I should be, but I recently got a new job, so … Read more
I have a confession to make: I’m a slow writer. Not just in the sense that the words do some slowly when I’m actually sitting in front of the computer, but also in the sense that I don’t get a lot of time to sit in front of the computer. “But, Gen,” you’re probably saying, … Read more