Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Here’s a waypoint on three writing projects, with some to-do notes. Sharing these interim steps keeps me from falling into negative thinking about what I’m getting done in any given week. I’m juggling three novels in various stages of completion. My work week will involve all three. The Macklin Powers: completed, copy editing done, query…
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It’s pretty easy for me to get ensnared in outrage these days. But pragmatism suggests that it makes more sense to choose appropriate emotional responses, rather than react to every little (or big) thing. I’m returning to my morning ritual: starting the day with poetry rather than news. For that, The Poetry Foundation provides an…
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Yesterday, my blog delved into the mysteries of character building in a novel. I went, as I often do to E.M. Forster, who describes it so well in “Aspects of the Novel,” a book published in 1927. My beat-up copy was published in 1955. I think I found it at a used bookstore in the…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 