Emotions are a fickle thing, are they not? On the Friday before Labor Day, I danced a little jig of happiness: two paying jobs! A partial request!
The Tuesday after, quite serendipitously, I met the other agent who has a partial of my novel. We had a lovely conversation as I drove her to her hotel [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Playing Gideon
Posted in Writing on Sep 25th, 2009
Last month, I laid out a fleece. (If you don’t know about fleeces, go read Judges 6:36-40 and then come back.)
As anyone who’s been reading this blog for awhile knows, this summer was not kind to me on the writing front. In fact, this whole year has been pretty much a wash: I’ve made 200 [...]
Phonics 101: The Shining Company
Posted in Writing on Sep 22nd, 2009
The trees began to thin, and we came out onto the edge of a clearing; and in the same moment the harvest moon, which had been veiled by thunder-rack, sailed out into a lake of clear sky. Ragged silver wings of cloud formed the shores of the lake, and beyond the fringe of hazel and [...]