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“Inspiration is for amateurs.”
Or so says the artist Chuck Close. And even though I spent half the morning staring out the coffee shop window, hoping the divine spark would fall out of the sky and land on my head so that I could figure out how to write the scene I’m working on in my newest novel, I absolutely agree with…
Big Projects and Productivity
A comment on a previous post points out that people sometimes get stuck on long projects and stall because they haven’t figured out the next step. “Write a book” seems a little daunting. You can’t get it done today. So you shy away from getting started at all. Productivity gurus talk about figuring out…
Things I Wouldn’t Do Again for One Million Dollars
The other day I was watching an acquaintance with her toddler, who is adorable but who is, also, a toddler, and it occurred to me that as much as I love my daughter, and have loved being her mother, and have felt privileged to be with her in the world, I would not parent a…
How to ask for blurbs
Recently, a writer approached me about blurbing her forthcoming book. (A blurb is a brief testimonial you often see on the back of a book.) Since her book is in my non-fiction niche, I agreed to take a look. She’s not the first person to ask me to blurb her book, but she is by…
On why I have a grimoire
This is my grimoire: A grimoire is a book of spells, but when I call it a spell book, half the people think I’m talking about a dictionary. A book of spells is like a cookbook, a collection of recipes, but “cookbook” just doesn’t do it for me, and is possibly misleading in case…
Your perfect game
If you follow sports, and even if you don’t, you probably know that Dallas Braden threw a perfect game for the A’s on Sunday. For some perspective: that was the 19th perfect game in the history of Major League Baseball. Given that your local team plays 162 games each season, and there are…