Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Quite a few of you have asked me if I was going to post daily NaNoWriMo comics this month. Sorry, but I’ve just got way too much going on right now to manage this BUT my friend Errol and I are contributing three comics a week (they didn’t want more . . .
Was fascinated by Robert Lee Brewer’s description of rondeaus today, so decided to step up to the challenge and posted two. Here they are: ========== I HOLD MY BREATH I hold my breath as I check mailWait for the cruel words to impalemy fragile writer soul so low:it shudders, rails against . . .
Picture books writers (aspiring and experienced): Picture Book Idea Monthstarts today! Check out Tara Lazar’s blog for more info.
I haven’t written about Second Life in a while, but wanted to post this screenshot of the writing session I participated in this morning. Don’t know about the rest of you, but I always find it motivating to write while others are working hard around me…one reason I’ve always loved working in . . .
Call me crazy, but I’ve always loved creative challenges. During the month of November, I’m going to be participating in: NaNoWriMo: I’ve been doing background and outlining of my cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel, Vampire Zombie Squirrels From Outer Space, and it’s finally time to start writing it. I may not reach . . .
For those who don’t know, I post a comic for writers over on Writer Unboxed on the first and third Saturday of every month. I just posted a new one this morning. 🙂
My MiG critique partner, Carmella VanVleet, is looking for work. I’ve known Carmella for a couple of years now, and we’ve also hung out in person. Carmella has had many books and short pieces for young people published, and I’ve always found her critique comments extremely useful. She’s responsible, accurate and . . .
I’ve always been interested in reading about other writers’ work habits, so I was delighted to see that Cheryl Klein had posted a review with Elizabeth C. Bunce, the author of CURSE AS DARK AS GOLD (which I loved) and STARCROSSED (ooo, must get this). Elizabeth says that CURSE took three years of “painstaking craft and . . .
Beyond The Margins is a group blog for a group of writers who met, taught, and workshopped through Grub Street, a nonprofit creative writing center in Boston. “We have published novels, short fiction, poetry, newspaper and magazine articles, and our backgrounds and careers run the gamut from social work and medicine . . .