by Rebecca | Feb 8, 2011 | fiction lessons, watch out I'm getting all verklempt
I’m pretty familiar with the Common Core standards, at least the English Language Arts ones, thanks to my day job. [Warning: I will now dabble in curriculum babble for approximately 4 sentences. And then I will stop.] Overall, I think it’s a good idea to...
by Rebecca | Nov 22, 2010 | confessions, music, talking about writing
How many of you writers have found yourself thinking any of the following: I only got an agent/got published/won an award because of luck, or because I wrote the right thing at the right time. So what if I wrote that book, now I have to write another. And it has to be...
by Rebecca | Sep 20, 2010 | nerdiness, revising, talking about writing, writing
Before I started inputting my hard-copy edits Saturday, I decided to make a Wordle of my MS. (Yes, I was procrastinating.) Copying my entire 70K MS to the clipboard and pasting it into the Wordle maker almost killed my computer, which was probably EXTREMELY STUPID to...
by Rebecca | Aug 30, 2010 | revising, WIP, writing
I love getting comments from beta readers. In particular, I love getting comments from my mom as a beta.My mom isn’t just a sweetheart reader, although she is very encouraging and supportive and tactful. She’s also a really good critic. I must have...
by Rebecca | Jul 29, 2010 | talking about writing, writing
I was at the Happiest Place on Earth on Monday, and it occurred to me that Disneyland is sort of live-action fiction. You wander through all of these very detailed, distinctive fictive neighborhoods, waiting in line to get on rides that simulate space or fairytale...
