by Rebecca | Jan 5, 2014 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, balancing act, busting up rocks, confessions, debutanting, deepthoughts, flexibility, goals, gratitude, IRL, mildly maudlin, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, one word, overly long posts, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, social media for the shy, Uncategorized
Last year, my word for 2013 was balance. While I do think that having that word at the forefront of my mind helped me take at least a few steps toward a more balanced life, I still have a lot of work to do with that word. But 2014 is a new year, so I needed a new...
by Rebecca | Jun 18, 2013 | confessions, deepthoughts, everyone's a critic, Goodreads, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, preaching to the choir, social media for the shy, this is how we read it
Confession: I’ve resisted joining Goodreads for the longest time. While I’ve long used–and appreciated!–the site to get information about books and read non-editorial reviews, I didn’t want an author account.* The main reason why? The...
by Rebecca | May 28, 2013 | a little rant, Adventures in Bloggysitting, balancing act, confessions, deepthoughts, flexibility, preaching to the choir, revising, twitterpated
This rambling post is one I’d been meaning to write for a while, and then I read Katy Upperman’s fabulous post On Insanity last week,* which made me want to post it even more. One of the hardest things about being a writer is quashing the impulse to...
by Rebecca | Nov 12, 2012 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, confessions, nerdiness, opinioninny, reader in chief, setting, talking about writing, White House, WIP
Kennedy Family at Camp David (source: Wikimedia Commons)It’s not surprising that I wound up writing a story about a pair of first daughters; I am a First Kid superfan. My interest in children in the White House has been lifelong–I remember seeing old...
by Rebecca | Oct 16, 2012 | confessions, deepthoughts, goals, gratitude, mildly maudlin, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, talking about writing, watch out I'm getting all verklempt
Many moons ago, someone gave me a bottle of decent champagne. I think it might have been leftover from a holiday party. I didn’t have an occasion to open it at the time, and I’m not generally fabulous enough to pop a bottle of bubbly for no reason. It was...
by Rebecca | Sep 25, 2012 | book people, confessions, eau de print, in which I embarrass myself, sensory overload, setting, talking about writing, verisimilitude, weird science, WIPspiration
We talk a lot about how some senses contribute to the writing process. The music playlists we listen to as we power through revisions, the pinboards we gaze at to visually inspire our WIPs, the chocolate we savor to help us deal with bad news, even the way our fingers...
