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I, too, haven't read an awful lot of books by women this year - for a while now I've been reading whatever the Amazon Vine program sends me, and some of those books aren't very good, whether by men or women - but I can unequivocally say that 'Catchi…
Hi Andrea, Writing is like anything else. It is a muscle that you develop. The more you ignore the box of brownies, the easier it is to continue to ignore them. Give yourself permission to write a really, really shitty first draft. It will help you…
whew. ok well i'm at 950 words for today and still more to go, so i guess i can gauge that i'm on track. and no, i still haven't cleaned up the cat barf. making brownies took priority. thanks gang!!
oh, no. Many hours staring into space, checking email and cat barf is always the top priority. Notice I said "aim for"
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I've been writing for about 25 years, and I do not have a standard. I write when I'm inspired. This can vary from several hours every day to dry spells that last months. I'm currently working on something and am trying to write 500 to 1000 words a d…
har de har har - at least you're pounding on a first draft instead of gazing into space, making excuses like 'i ought to clean up that cat barf lying over there' or 'that box of brownies isn't going to bake itself, you know.' in all seriousness, tho…
First draft ;) As in the famous "shitty first draft"!
thanks cathryn...sheesh you can really write fast!
My writing time sometimes gets pinched by my day job ... so it varies depending on time available. I aim for about 4-6 pages in an hour when I'm working on a first draft. That pushes me to keep at it without feeling I have to churn out nonsense to h…
As a n00b, I was just wondering if there's some sort of standard writers try and hew to when cranking out pages daily. Is 5 pages a decent average? Ten? Is it totally arbitrary? Thanks for the help!
Hey everybody...Kendra Levin (also on the forum) just sent me this link and I'm passing it on to you all so I don't have to be the only infuriated, outraged person out there this fine Friday!
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/07/23/aint-that…
Unfortunately, because I am technologically obstinate, I use crappy old MS Word for every single thing I write (well - I use the latest version - but still). I do go back and forth between Macs and PCs with it without any problems, though.
Congrats on your book, Judith...what a gripping topic. Were you forced to travel to Iceland to research it? What a drag. ;)
I second Saturday the 12th at six-ish!
And, we will learn to be prepared for the End Times Zombie Apocalypse we all know is coming! Spinning yarn is one of the skills necessary to outlast the zombies. I'd love to learn.
Sorry, all. I have a bad habit of hijacking topics and crashing the…
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- At 12:03pm on December 5, 2009,
Bernice L. McFadden said… - Dear Book Lover:
You may not know me or my work, but I am the national bestselling, award winning novelist of six critically acclaimed novels who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.
If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
www.bernicemcfadden.com
www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com
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- At 11:53am on July 7, 2009,
Kendra Levin said… - oh YEAH!
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