Making It Up

The children are back to school tomorrow, something I approach with very mixed feelings. They’re around almost all the time during the summer, which means I get almost no work done — and anything I do get done is in the cracks. On the other hand, I get to see them lots and lots. On [...]

We have no internet at home, and have not had internet for almost two days (thank you Comcast), so finally I took myself off to our town library to work. I love our library. It’s pretty small, but it’s friendly and you can request books from throughout the county system and they come really quickly.

Oh hi! Sorry, I’ve been a bit distracted — in part with some real life stuff, like being sick (cough cough), trying to have fun (Jet Li!) and fixing the showerheads in the house we’re trying to sell. Also, I won’t tell you the waste-pipe story, but there is one, and it’s a stinker.   [...]

I have a theory about why writers write in the POV they do. But before I tell you what it is, I should define my terms (and heighten the tension and thus the apparent importance of my theory) (not really), even though I’m pretty sure you already know. POV stands for Point of View, that is, the [...]

I confess. I am a rereader. I reread books. And I’m not talking about rereading them once. There are books I have probably read a dozen times. Or a hundred. I’m currently rereading the first five Percy Jackson books (second time round, I think), and I have Anne of Avonlea sitting around the kitchen

So my son is turning eleven tomorrow – and today we had eight 11ish year old boys in the house for movies and unplanned mayhem. “Hey, GUYS!” shouted Daniel, after they finished pushing entire cupcakes into their mouths. “Wanna go up to my room, turn the lights out and pretend the room is consuming u

Darling, does this blog make my manuscript look phat? I recently read two great blog posts about aspiring authors and blogging, both of which made me feel like I just had a V-8. Or like I should have had a V-8. Anyway, there was a bit of virtual head-slapping. DON’T DO THIS The first was [...]

A cheery hello to all you new and sparkly followers! You have inspired me to do with my blog what having people over inspires me to do with my house. Clean it. It never gets done otherwise, or not really. A bit of reshelving here. A smidgen of smelly sock disposal there. A few bits [...]