I have now written a little more than 4000 words into my new novel. I’m still floundering around, checking out the territory and the voice and the point of view, exploring the characters. The main character, a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage, hasn’t admitted to herself that she’s unhappy, that she’s more unhappy that […]
After a conversation with a friend yesterday, I have been thinking about how one gets what one wants. The first step, of course, is to figure out WHAT you want. I know what I want. I want to be a writer. To spend my life writing, to write until I am 94…or older!…to write book after book […]
Lots of big doings here this week. 1) We have a new dog at our house, and some new rules in place for the fourteen-year-old (and for me). 2) I emailed my novel manuscript to my agent. The last time I did this, I didn’t hear back for a month, then I was asked (very […]