Ever since my friend, Donna, totally inadvertently shamed me into working on The Beast, I’ve been pretty diligent with the making of the words. Well, I became pretty diligent after I spent approximately three and…
Posts tagged the beast
John Cusack & A Fistful of NutterButters
I went off the deep end pretty early this morning. Maybe even before 9 a.m. The cause? A Twitter-friend pointing out a novel with an intro blurb that could have been written about my work-in-progress…
Sometimes I Forget It’s Not 2003
I am typing this one-handed at 9:01 p.m. on this thunderstormy Thursday. I’m using the other hand to shove a peanut butter & jelly sandwich into my gaping maw. It is the first of a…
Things I Believe I Deserve a Major Award For
The awkward construction of that headline. Writing fiction two days in a row like some kind of fiction writer. Today I crested 21,000 words on The Beast v2. Emptying the dishwasher when the only dirty…
Writing Process Blog Tour: Some Word Barf About Word Barf
Last week, my friend Donna Trump, a lovely and talented writer I met in on of Vodo’s writing classes at The Loft a bajillion years ago asked me to take part in the Writing Process…