I’m short on patience these days — which is not news, and I’m sure I’ve said it before. Maybe it’s one of those end-of-your-twenties things, the pressure of the bud before the bloom my thirties have been promised to be by so many older friends. I think complaints should come with a plan of action [...]
I’ve been writing online for a decade and a half, and the question I’ve always wrestled with is “how much is too much to share?” It was a major theme in my honors project in college. It’s the reason I’ve started and restarted far more than my fair share of blogs. And it’s the reason [...]
Like every other page of your crappy book, the sex scenes should tell me something about the characters that I couldn’t figure out from “And then they did it.” – Sean Lindsay of 101 Reasons to Stop Writing
So believe me when I say, this isn’t necessarily a town where you’d expect to find a white family eating tamales on Christmas Eve. And yet my family is not alone in this tradition. The more I’ve asked around, the more I’ve heard of families sharing the same tradition, not just in Colusa but in [...]
I went on a business trip a week ago, and it plunged me into something of a quarterlife crisis/opportunity/epiphany. I’ve been making great progress on this novel – I’m about 25% on the wordcount I wanted for the first draft – but I pulled my head up and realized that I may have been so [...]