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Empty rooms and full rooms 26 Aug 2013 | 05:51 am
When I saw this item about Brandy singing to a nearly-empty stadium, I thought that plenty of writers could probably relate. There are times when author events are--shall we say, lightly attended. Hav...
Bringing old books back to life 23 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
As an author, it's sometimes tempting to look at other parts of the publishing and bookselling process and daydream about how it would be to have one of those jobs instead. Many of us fantasize occasi...
Carpe diem 21 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
"Live every day as if it's your last" is a nice sentiment, but I've always found it impossible to do. If I followed that credo, I would never go to the doctor, clean my house*, eat healthily, sleep, f...
New silence 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
I've always been a person who liked sound around the house. (Not noise, but sound.) I would never bring a radio out on a hike or to the beach, but at home I liked to have music or the TV on, except wh...
Thankful Thursday 16 Aug 2013 | 05:39 am
Today I'm thankful for: Unbelievably gorgeous weather. The stories and characters that live in my head. The goldfinch that visits the birch outside my window. The sound of crickets and cicadas. (It's...
Most days are like this 14 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
Much of my energy right now is going into revision: that long slow plod full of detours and backtracking. In the midst of revision, every book seems endless. Even though I write relatively short books...
A few thoughts on Code Name Verity 12 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
I recently finished reading Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity, the acclaimed story of a captured British WWII spy, told from her point of view during interrogation by the Nazis. I'm not going to do a ...
Office politics 5 Aug 2013 | 07:06 am
When I saw this Tumblr in which Maureen Johnson quoted Sarah Rees Brennan I made a note of it, because it discussed several things that come up for writers once we venture beyond our own writing caves...
Starfish 1 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
This, from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea, really spoke to me (and speaks for me): "We are asked today to feel compassionately for everyone in the world; to digest intellectually all the i...
A summer Sunday salad of links 29 Jul 2013 | 02:24 am
Yesterday was my monthly post at YA Outside the Lines, this time about the best summer of my teen years (hint: It involved writing. Also gamelan, the Beatles, an unfinished film, Shakespeare, and acce...
