Agents?

Who am I? What makes me unique as a writer? In seeking to find my path as a blogger, I need to figure out what makes me different than the kazillion other unpublished writers out there. Whatever the intrinsic value of ‘me’ is will translate into everything I write, novels as well as blogposts. Some…

Getting critiqued is an interesting experience. It’s not precisely new to me; I’ve had folks reading and critting my work for about four years now. This last week, however, was the first time I’d had a whole bunch of people I didn’t know pick at just one short section: 25 pages to be precise. Once…

This is something I’m really good at in Real Life, and not so good at in writing. Why? I’m guessing because each story I work on requires a certain depth of thought immersion. It’s not easy to dip in lightly and then off to something else, at least not if I want to make progress….

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Tempest erupted in my brain with her sort of complete story synopsis. I tried to ignore her for a couple of days, thinking I knew best. When that didn’t work, I jumped in with both feet. By the time I’d fleshed out what I knew of the…

I’ve heard this is what an agent’s life is like. What do you think? (Thanks to Rachelle Gardner at WordServe!)

Do you drive stick shift? Do you remember learning how? For me (many years ago), it was pretty traumatic. We lived at the bottom of a hill, and the vehicle was a 3/4 ton Jeep pickup truck. The kind with the gear shift that took up two square feet of shifting space. I remember trying…