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The Waiting Game (October 3, 2014)

Some people are very bad at playing the waiting game. I am one of those people. More »

Funny Bits 09-25-14: John Green (September 25, 2014)

On Monday, a Riverside Unified School District committee voted six to one to ban The Fault in Our Stars from middle school libraries. The six in favor argued that (a) the book implies that the protagonists have sex, a subject of which kids today are blissfully ignorant, and (b) the fictional portrayal of cancer patients "dealing with their own mortality" is too "difficult" for preteens. More »

Funny Bits 09-22-14: Charles Schultz (September 22, 2014)

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy. More »

Twist Endings: Good vs. Bad (September 14, 2014)

Last night I read a book, or at least the first 25% of a book and the last few pages. The writing was poetic. The setting and characters were interesting, if a bit cliched. I was just starting to hunker down and enjoy myself when, around page fifty... More »

The Between-Book Blues (September 13, 2014)

Right now I'm in the middle of what Sweetie calls PCD, Post-Completion Depression. PCD is what happens when you finish a project you've been working on for a long time, and now you don't know what to do with yourself. You spend your free time bored out of your mind; lolling around on the bed, studying shadows on the ceiling; but unwilling to start any new projects because you're still drained from the last one. In the field of writing, PCD might also be called BBB: the Between-Book Blues. More »

Thoughts on Querying Agents (September 9, 2014)

On Sunday night I began querying agents to pitch Kagemusha. By Tuesday morning, I already had two form rejections in my inbox. More »

Funny Bits 09-08-14: Maurice Sendak (September 8, 2014)

From the late Maurice Sendak. More »

Funny Bits 09-06-14: PG Wodehouse (September 6, 2014)

Last week I finished the novel I've been hacking at for the past two years, Kagemusha. Last night Sweetie finished reading it, and today I'm going through his comments to decide which I will agree with and which I will ignore. Then when I'm done with my final round of edits, I'll start sending queries to agents, and we'll see where things go from there. More »

Beware the Biting of the Lips: Body Language Found in Fiction That You Don't See in Real Life (August 12, 2014)

A few days ago, after many moons of waiting, I finally received a book I'd reserved at the public library—a work of women's fiction that has topped bestseller lists and earned critical praise from several impressive-sounding newspapers and journals. I wasn't much interested by the premise, but I felt I should keep an open mind and see what the fuss was about. More »

The Bechdel Test Is a Joke. Literally. (August 2, 2014)

A few days ago, I learned something that is likely common knowledge among people considered educated members of society: the Bechdel test is a joke. Literally. More »