Posted in What I've Learned, musings, novel, tagged agents, music, musings, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, What I've Learned on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, that title is a bit misleading… I’m new to writing and publishing and don’t know “everything I need to know” by a long stretch.
The inspiration for this blog post came when a quote from Willy Wonka popped into my head and seemed to fit my quest for publication.
“There’s a hundred billion people in this [...]
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Since I first started writing The Edge of Memory in October, I have spent virtually every minute I’m alone in the car working on it in my head. I commute 75 minutes each way. So that’s a lot of time.
But I think I’m really done now with editing, until/unless an agent or editor [...]
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I do most of my creative thinking in my car when I’m commuting. The rest of my life is just packed with too many distractions.
Lately, having plateaued on edits for The Edge of Memory, and patiently waiting for partials to be reviewed, I’ve been spending time thinking about my next novel, which will be more [...]
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So, virtually every car has some sort of glitch. Our old minivan had a transmission that was prone to crapping out without warning.
And my luck dictates that if a glitch is possible, it is probable.
So, recently I was driving home from work in my dream car. The weather was fabulous, and, inhibitions removed by lack [...]
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Remember this?
Today, for the first time in a month, Sunshine on My Shoulders came up on my random mp3 disk. But today was a gorgeous day.
So John and I are officially back together.
Wearing my $5, non-prescription sunglasses in the springtime sunshine, letting my eyes caress the hollow of each individual leaf shimmying in the [...]
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Ms. Brain-the-Size-of-a-Planet was one of my ex-boyfriend’s nicknames for me (Douglas Adams fan, natch). There is ample subjective and objective evidence to suggest that I am a smart person. And yet…
I have a lovely mp3 mix that I listen to in my car. A playlist of ~200 songs that I listened [...]
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Posted in musings, tagged music, musings, work on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
John Denver is messing with me.
Or maybe the Universe is just laughing behind my back.
Let me preface this blog post by saying that I love my car. When my husband asked me what my dream car was last year, I told him an ‘06 Hyundai Sonata. He said, “you’re kidding.” And [...]
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Someone today mentioned great “Dance Movies”, one of which was West Side Story. This reminded me of an inspiration I had for a silly project back in medical school…
A parody of West Side Story, about rival insurance companies. The sweet young couple love each other dearly, but cannot wed as their preexisting conditions [...]
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Music is extremely important to me. All types of music.
I love the melody and the rhythm, but they are mostly a vehicle for me to mainline powerful lyrics.
So, I recently watched “Easter Parade”, being as the season was right for it. And, as always, Fred Astaire sang about how he was “Drum Crazy”.
I’m [...]
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Posted in musings, tagged family, music, nirvana, sushi, words on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Today, as I drove to pick up California rolls for dinner, I was rocking out to Nirvana.
I remembered the first time I ever heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. I was in high school, cruising with my sister. She had already mainlined the song after taping it off the radio and knew all the [...]
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Today, I couldn’t write. So, instead I compiled an imaginary soundtrack.
You know, for the imaginary movie based on my still-at-least-half-imaginary novel.
It would have:
Half Acre (Hem)
This is the Day (The The)
Omaha (Counting Crows)
Elsewhere (Sarah Maclachlan)
Daughters (John Mayer)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Nat King Cole)
Trouble Sleeping (Corinne Bailey Rae)
Where or When (Rod Stewart)
Blackbird [...]
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