Eventually, during a break between lectures, there was a little circle of conversation at the hotel coffee shop. I don’t recall how it happened, but something I said about my in-progress novel led to this editor’s turning to me and asking, “So, Courtney, what is your book about?”
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This was gonna be an addendum to a blog post, but then it turned into a minor epistle, so I decided to give it its own post. What we’re talkin’ here, my darlings, is news. Goody! Comment Notifications Several readers have mentioned that even though they subscribe to comments on my blog, they don’t receive …
Or: A Blogging Voice Is Hard to Come By If you’ve tweeted with me recently… …or if you’ve read comments I’ve left on others’ blogs… …or if you’ve paid close attention to my blog posts over the last month or so, …you know that I’ve been worrying about my vision and my voice. When I …
Thankfully, there were no small rooms, bright lights, or belly-button-invading metal shrimp involved. Two fabulous fellow bloggers published interviews with me this week! In my first ever Skype interview, El Edwards of truthpassionjoy.com talked with me about how my husband and I set a goal of 5 years for me to get published — and …
In her Twenty Things NOT To Say To A Writer: A Handy Safety Guide, Laura Resnick tells us that a career of writing books “…is insanely competitive, disastrously unstable, and skull-crushingly difficult to do.” My experience as a published author now encompasses exactly 13 days. So far, I have learned three very important things about …
Did I get a book published? Why yes. Yes, I did.
I have some Virtue Trap Quiz results to share with you!
(Or: Confessing My Creative Recovery, Pt. 2) Awhile back, I promised to do a series of posts on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This might or might not be the first post in that series. I don’t know yet. I’ve been keeping myself pretty well confined to Confessions of late, so after today, I might …
Smee: I’ve just had an apostrophe. Hook: I think you mean an epiphany. Smee: Lightning has just struck my brain. Sometimes, my darlingest readers, lightning-esque is exactly how apostrophes happen. They’re pretty cramazing when they happen, but I must admit they do leave one somewhat stupefied with shock. In Pt. 1 of my Confessions, I …