Quote for March 29, 2010

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Mark Twain Sorry for the gap in quotes over the last few days. I’ll post on that today.

Spreadsheet for Success

Last week I read a very inspiring – and intimidating – interview with Kresley Cole on Dear Author, regarding the sale of her first manuscript. After reading the opinions of dozens of published authors, publishers, and agents, I have decided to attempt a similar, though perhaps more manageable,...

Quote for March 18, 2010

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” – Gloria Steinem

Quote for March 17, 2010

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

Freewriting Exercise

I read an interesting article by Melissa Donovan on Writing Forward about Freewriting. Here’s one of my attempts below. some dogs have wrinkles snippets of the moon tiny fingers bright apples dancing to the music nothing to say up the task wandering mental meanderings hushpuppies in the dark along the...