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Avoiding the dreaded DEAD END
As mentioned in a couple previous posts, I’m wrapping up my Novel-In-Progress. This has been a long, somewhat traumatic process, but it’s getting done. About two weeks ago, I realized that I had to...
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Whoa
I’ve just submitted my novel. Whoa. I’m a little freaked out. Fear competes with excitement. I’m not sure which is winning, but I have a suspicion that I should really be feeling relaxed. After all,...
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The Romance of Writing a Novel
I subscribe to the daily emails from Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac (which I highly recommend) and today’s email included a lovely quote from the award-winning author, Khaled Hosseini (here I have...
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More crazy ideas from yours truly
I’m sorta infamous among my friends for having lots of whacked-out, creative-but-slightly-off-kilter, usually (but not always) impractical ideas. Here’s my latest: Rabbi Aryeh Leib Nivin–a motivational...
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Who’s talking? POV, Voice, and Narrator as explained in Anne Lamott’s Bird by...
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott There are few books that come up with my writer friends more often than Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. In the same way that I feel like I’m not quite smart enough because I’ve...
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Writers don’t live on desert islands
A couple weeks ago, a writer I’m friendly with asked in passing if I’d finished revising my novel. I told her that I felt like the rewrite wouldn’t happen until I moved to a desert island. Until that...
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Avoiding the dreaded DEAD END
As mentioned in a couple previous posts, I’m wrapping up my Novel-In-Progress. This has been a long, somewhat traumatic process, but it’s getting done. About two weeks ago, I realized that I had to...
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Signs you might want to buy one of my new books
BOTH MY NEW BOOKS ARE UP AND RUNNING ON AMAZON! WAHOO! (Do I sound excited?) Mazal’s Luck Runs Out is for ages 8-11. My life is being taken over by marketing (What? Did you say there’s a Jewish holiday...
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