Retreating to write
I was bogged down. I could force myself to sit in the chair in front of the word processor and get words on the page, but I wasn’t inspired and I certainly wasn’t enjoying it. Not only that: I wasn’t getting enough words on the page, so I was falling behind on the...My very brief flirtation with being a David Foster Wallace fan
I was originally seduced by the commencement speech David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College in 2005, titled “This is Water”. Of course, David Foster Wallace is a name you hear all the time, a towering figure in the world of modern literature. (There’s something...Can you write 30,000 words in 28 days?
That’s known as a writing challenge, and I took it this February, participating in (and leading, for full disclosure) Jersey Romance Writing Month (JeRoWriMo). I founded the challenge three years ago for the New Jersey Romance Writers because many of us liked the...Apology from a bad blogger
Wow! I need to blog more. I just noticed that my last entry was from nearly a month ago. So why DON’T I blog? Excuse #1: It uses the almost the same writing muscles as fiction does, and I need to conserve energy for writing my books. Because those are what folks...You’re editing your book AGAIN?!
Non-writers are always shocked when I tell them I’m doing edits yet again (as I am now for The Place I Belong). No, it’s not that I’m a particularly sloppy writer. It’s just the process that every book goes—or should go—through. The more eyes you can get on a...Follow Nancy
