by Rebecca | May 3, 2012 | blog me MAYbe, IRL, overly long posts, sartorial, setting, talking about writing, trends, verisimilitude, WIPspiration
Back in the day, I went to a large public high school in a small city. I’ve realized that most of the YA and MG books I (personally) read are set in suburbs or small towns. It made me wonder: what’s it like to be a teen in a larger city these days? I...
by Rebecca | Jan 18, 2012 | mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, nerdiness, overly long posts, revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, the classics
This week I’m returning to a sh!tty first draft from a long hiatus. It’s been so long and the draft is so raw that I don’t know whether to call this an extension of drafting, rewriting, or revising. It’ll probably be all three. I get nervous...
by Rebecca | Nov 8, 2011 | mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, pacing, revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, WIP
I know, I know. Synopses are devilish. But hear me out on this one. I always start revisions by reading through my WIP, fighting the urge to make line edits the whole time. (If I let myself start making edits, I would never get through the read. So if something is...
by Rebecca | Oct 4, 2011 | deepthoughts, Poetry month, talking about writing
A Poet’s PoemBrenda ShaughnessyIf it takes me all day,I will get the word freshened out of this poem.I put it in the first line, then moved it to the second,and now it won’t come out.It’s stuck. I’m so frustrated,so I went out to my little porch all covered in snowand...
by Rebecca | Jun 6, 2011 | in which I embarrass myself, Lyleish, talking about writing, treat this post as evidence of procrastination, trends, WIPspiration
I stumbled into joining Pinterest lately–my friend invited me and I signed up, but had no idea what I was making an account for. Then other friends started “following” me on Pinterest and I still didn’t have a clue what it was, but figured it...
by Rebecca | Mar 3, 2011 | revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, unintended barf connotations, why so many tags for such a short and insubstantial post?, WIP
I adopted a nifty, new (to me) process while revising my WIP: chunking.chunking • \chung’ king\ v. 1 the processing of splitting an overwhelming MS into “chunks,” or parts, in order to revise the whole by parts.I didn’t set out to chunk my MS...
