Posted in Reading on Jun 30th, 2009
On Thursday, I got back from a lovely vacation on remote Ross Lake in the North Cascades—no phone, no cell service, no internet; my husband and I didn’t even bring our laptops. It was glorious.
I read and canoed and read and hiked and read and played games and read. With my kids I read Mr. [...]
I started sending out queries for my novel last month. So far, I’ve sent 8 queries and gotten 6 rejections. Ouch.
But rather than feel sorry for myself, which is what I would normally do, or declare that agents are heartless fiends, which is what some writers seem to do, I decided I would try to [...]
When I say that writing my book was an inspired process, I do not mean that I had nothing to do with that process, that I sat twiddling my thumbs while I waited for inspiration. Not at all. I worked hard, writing, rewriting, moving sentences and whole paragraphs around, rearranging, reworking transitions, eliminating illustrations or [...]