Words: 1,200 Music: Bach violin concertos I was thinking about this recently because of screenwriter Josh Olson’s blog in The Village Voice. Among Olson’s many pearls of wisdom there is this: It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you’re dealing with someone who can’t. (By the way, here’s a simple way to find out if Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: I have commenced book 3. With TUMB off to the first readers and my week free of all other distraction except for sudoku, Facebook, Google, e-mail, various fora, and the backlog of New Yorkers, I have begun. It ain’t much, but I’ll take it. I am half-outlining, half-writing. So this book’s process will be very different from the previous three! I am so excited to back in Aeritan. Note Read more…
This morning was the amazing sight of Venus hanging below the crescent moon as if it were a diamond on a very fancy necklace. I tried to get a picture but my settings were all wrong, and everything came out looking like two comets crashing into the planet, which was cool and all, but not exactly what was going on. I was also distracted by the fact that someone had smeared blood on my husband’s Read more…