Sitemap - 2019 - Woman of Letters
My decade in love, friendship, and publishing
Most genre novels require external conflict
Where do new projects come from?
Feeling that totally normal blah feeling that one feels when between projects
Am in the final stages of editing my novel for adults
Life is pretty good, but also sometimes it’s not so good
I am still a writer of short stories
The bad-lyrical style is a fungus that lies mouldering at the back of literature's refrigerator
As far as I can tell, there's not a lot of interesting book discussion online
The evolution of my writing style over time
Is there a middle ground between the average person and the heroes of literature?
Elizabeth Hardwick writes about fiction that treats with the problems of being a woman
Writing and releasing a book that actually has a market feels very different
A peek at the cover of my next book WE ARE TOTALLY NORMAL
Nobody has more fun reading than a writer does
Casting about for a new project
Game of Thrones finale was alright
When to stop writing for the day
Very close to the end of this draft
I still read quite a bit, but I almost never post about it
Had that feeling last night that I’m probably going to finish this book
Finding intimate, life-long friends
Writing a novel these days feels like a relentless and slow grinding of gears
I've "read" an absurd number of "books" in the last ten weeks
Going to more fully embrace audio for my popular fiction reading
Reflections on how the MFA program ushered me into class-consciousness