I’m having lunch with my sister today and she asks how things are going. “Terrible,” I say. “I hate my book.” “Aw!” she says. She’s read a few excerpts over my shoulder. “Why?” I launch into an explanation of my main character’s radically shifting voice (to my perspective). She doesn’t agree. In fact, she’s giving […]
On my left hand, on my ring finger (directly under my wedding ring, in fact) I have a mole. At some point in my teens, I became very concerned about this mole. Not for the normal reasons–melanoma, unattractiveness, irritation–but because of what the mole might mean. If I were a character in a book, that […]
This blog, it’s turning out, triggers my anxiety. A bit. See, I have a decent-sized anxiety disorder. I do think of it in terms of size, as I find what matters is how much and where it overlaps the rest of my life. I take my meds, I do my therapy, I work on asking […]
I’m on vacation in Hawai’i so I’m super-behind on posts. But what can I do? The ocean is indeed a better view than the computer screen. Actually, it’s weird. This time last year I was knee-deep in The God Catcher, which if you read my previous post you know means I was trying to write […]
I haven’t watched Wheel of Fortune in years and I think I’m missing something. I turned it on while making dinner (Alton Brown’s weirdly tasty Sherried Sardine Toasts) and every one of the three contestants was vowel-crazy. As soon as they had some money, they started buying vowels like crazy. Was it always like this? […]
I wrote a book called The God Catcher. See? Writing is, in general, something I love to do, and I was thrilled to get the chance to write something that I’d be paid for and that other people would read. Signing the work for hire contract felt like a momentous shift in my life. But there […]