I won’t be blogging much in the month of November. I have a new novel in the works and I’m trying to get the rough draft done as part of National Novel Writing Month. If you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo, the link to my NaNo profile is here and the link to my novel synopsis is […]
I visited Word on the Street this past weekend. It’s my favourite celebration of booky goodness. The weather was sunny and warm, the crowds large and cheerful. There was even some fun street theatre to compliment the books, talks, signings, sales, giveaways and concerts. I came away with too many books but why not? As vices go,
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I found Meg Rosoff’s There Is No Dog in the YA section of a Chapters store. Teens should find the book funny for its irreverent philosophy but I wouldn’t expect every adolescent boy to appreciate it. The premise is that God is incompetent and apathetic because he is a teenage boy. The job is foisted on
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I had my 3 showings of my video, The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Cyclone yesterday. People seemed to enjoy it and it was a pleasure to see the cast get up and get some applause after all their hard work. Here’s the blurb: The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Cyclone, a lunar comedy orbiting your funny
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Encouraging FeedbackI recently attended the Ontario Writer’s Conference and received some encouraging feedback for my mystery-in-progress. An editor with big publishing house credentials called my story good, saleable and said it should go to an American publisher. She liked the style and compared it to Alexander McCall Smith. She also told me I have a
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The NaNoWriMo novel is going well this past week. I only hope now not to run out of plot twists before I run out of words. One thing I have learned from these fast-writing marathons is, I don’t seem to write much better when I have more time. Fitting in 1667 words a day is
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They say you have to paper a wall with rejection slips but I’ve been writing plays for school and novel-length manuscripts for so long, I just don’t submit that often. Perhaps I’m making a mistake. I found out this week that a rejection can sometimes give just the right kind of encouragement. I just got
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Yeeeehaaaaw! I completed the first draft last night. My wonderful husband took my son and I out for Hakka Chinese food to celebrate. The other thing I did to celebrate was read M.T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts, a hilarious parody of children’s adventure, horror and mystery books. I laughed so hard I ruptured my blubber.
I have a new writing project. I drafted next year’s school play in July, so now it’s time to move on to something bigger. It’s an SF comedy with lots of laughs and suspense aimed at a middle school audience. So far I have written 85 pages. This has been one of the easiest writing
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I have a new writing project this summer. Now that next year’s school play is drafted, it’s time to move on to something bigger. So far I have an outline, character sketches and a lot of ideas about tone for my new kids novel. It’s an SF comedy with lots of laughs and suspense. What