Sometimes, you have to eat at your desk while working or writing or reading blogs (except for that one potential employer who warned me that eating at your desk — lunch or snacks* — is not permitted). Gillian Anderson approves….
By Guest Contributor Amber Love. (This post originally appeared on Amber’s website, Amber Unmasked) Trigger warning: sexual assault discussion I’m not sure I can adequately describe how stressed I was reading and reviewing CANARY by Duane Swierczynski. I’m not going to…
Novels are my second love, the roast beef in my diet. And I relish the meal. But I down short stories like chocolates. For their density. For their Pow! of feeling and their electric insight. I’d venture to say that…
There are some great links this week, but all I can think about is macaroni and cheese. Homemade mac and cheese. Kraft mac and cheese. Mac and cheese with breadcrumbs, hot dogs, tuna … Nothing else matters. You can find…
This Draft Sucks – Part I ends with the following advice: if you think your draft sucks, put it away. Don’t look at it for a month and hope when you return with fresh eyes it won’t suck as badly…
I retweeted a bit of praise, and now everyone thinks I’m a jerk… I’ll never publish my novel, and everyone knows it… I used the word “shrug” 432 times in my novel, and now my writing group thinks I need to go…