Archive for September 2012
Head space
When I quit my job to start freelancing, lo these many years ago, I was very serious about my work space.I had a little office, and I would trundle up there each morning with my patient brown dog and sit in my seat until I had made the requisite number of phone calls or written…
Read MoreRevising
Many of my writer friends appear to be in the middle of revising their manuscripts. I can tell because they are making the noises I hear when I hurry past the waxing section of the salon. To ease the sting, I thought I’d share how I revise these days. First, go read this. It is…
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Ten years ago, I sat down in the house of a woman who had lost her son on September eleventh. She’d been out grocery shopping that day and hadn’t heard the news. She came home to a message from her son, who worked in one of the towers. “He told me a plane had hit…
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Audio books listened to: Nine Favorite: No Passengers Beyond This Point, by Gennifer Choldenko (Caveat: The Graveyard Book will always be my very favorite. As my children grow, I find it more mournful, but each summer that we listen it’s like running into an old friend.) Sharks sighted: None (Thank God!) Boat rides taken: Two…
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