A local client of mine, another baseball aficionado and HSP (highly sensitive person) who came to cheer on my softball team last night, brought with him to our last editing meeting a copy of Good Prose, by Tracy Kidder and…
In the past three years of querying agents for my novel, Outta Here!, I've gone from running on pure high hopes and confidence, to almost hitting the game-ending "I quit writing forever" button. After working on my pages for four years…
Last month, the fine folks at the museum of americana published an excerpt of the novel I am currently shopping around. This month, they asked me a few questions. I got to talk softball, girl power, and the Eighties! What's not…
"I worry when I feel good and giddy about what I’ve written that I’m delusional." How much longer would this great piece by Susannah Felts, "Here Are the Things You Should Worry About While Writing a Novel," become, if passed around…
For my novel--like most (aspiring!) novelists, I suppose--I combined a tiny percentage of real life with a huge percentage of the imagined. I also did some research. I watched the entire Ken Burns' Baseball miniseries while at a writers' residency in…
Don't these notebooks make you want to be a kid again? Maybe you're writing a memoir about the darkest moment of your life, or your novel's protagonist is a brutal thieving scumbag--and yes, maybe the line spacing in these Mead…
