On the business of being a writer
It’s official. I’m writing my memoir. It feels like a daunting task. The first draft alone involves scraping and fact-checking my own memory, writing events down coherently, and then trying to find a sensible order to it all. I think I have my themes solid. And I think I have …
Are your editor’s fists clenching each time she red-inks the same freaking suggestions on your work? Does your brain have nasty, inexplicable desires to do housework at the same point of every story? Have you locked your shortcomings away in a steel coffer that you’ve buried in a deep, dark, …
This interaction could have happened in any store. The fact that it happened in a Wal-Mart only justified my choice to use that chain in one part of my novel. Thanksgiving morning. My local grocer had already closed, and as these things go I needed a handful of last minute …
LinkedIn invited me to write an article. You can read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140804213219-31273359-authors-should-consider-the-quiet-road-of-small-and-mid-sized-publishers
