I’ve done it: I’ve joined National Novel Writing Month. =:0 This evil suggestion came to me from Elizabeth, over at The Garden Window, who is also dipping into the world of temporary insanity known as novel-writing. In this case, it may lead to permanent insanity, since the idea is to write a 50,000-word novel in [...]
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Bite the Bullet
Posted in A Writer's Life on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
15 Books
Posted in A Writer's Life, Autobiography, Personal on July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Cribbed from Philippa’s blog:
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. This list is in no particular order.
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia, as told to William Brinkley
Firefox, by [...]
A Writer’s Life
Posted in A Writer's Life on June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I think most readers of this blog know that among other things, I write novels. They started out, 30 years ago, as a way for me to explore Russian culture and to combine my own (sketchy) Russian heritage with something very dear to my heart at the time: federal law enforcement, which I had just [...]
