HaikuReview: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green X=good book Where Y is graves, graphs, wild boars. Therefore, read for laughs. By the way, Sara Wilson anagrams to ‘Alias Sworn’ Sara Etienne to ‘A Insane Tree’
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Lower your standards (conference continued)
August 15, 2007 – 5:39 pm
Each and every morning, I have to get out of bed and choose, all over again, to be a writer. Sitting there at my writing desk, waiting for me, is Fear and his charming sidekick, Doubt. I don’t know about you, but my Fear is ugly. Massive chipped teeth, bad breath, twisted yellowing claws, not [...]
Channeling Faye
August 13, 2007 – 1:31 pm
I’m brain deep in character development, right now. Unfortunately it’s for Faye, the main character of a novel I’ve been writing on and off for 4 years. Same novel. From the very beginning, I knew Faye. Who she was. What she wanted. The concept in my head was brilliantly clear. Unfortunately, my writing wasn’t. After [...]
Evil Genius Husband
August 12, 2007 – 8:36 pm
Militant Slugs. Mutant Giraffes. Amoeba Teachers. This is what Today’s Artists are thinking, dreaming, and drawing about. Or at least the unbalanced people at Rhythm and Hues Studios. Tony’s joined a collection of artists from work who look their creative sides straight in the eye and say, ‘Um…hello?’ Each week, ‘The Drawing Board‘ illustrates a [...]
A meeting of equals
August 11, 2007 – 1:21 pm
I’ve decided to do little mini entries about the conference as something strikes me. Here’s to the first of many. Also, click on Arthur Levine to check out the SCBWI website (where I shamelessly stole this picture, thanks!) for a great summary of the conference. Arthur Levine is a genius. And I don’t mean because [...]
Learning how to be an elephant
August 10, 2007 – 5:22 pm
“It kinda feels like being an elephant in a room full of elephants, speaking on the topic of how to be an elephant…. I’m not sure what I know about being an elephant.” This is how John Green (author of Looking for Alaska) started his speech about writing at the Society for Children’s Book Writers [...]
The way things should be…
August 2, 2007 – 5:47 pm
A friend of mine passed away last week and I’ve been walking around with this hollow, dull, shell-shocked feeling. I didn’t get a chance to see him very often, but already, the world seems emptier without him. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be walking into the SCBWI conference to pick up my badge. I’m going to turn [...]
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!!
August 1, 2007 – 2:42 pm
No, it’s not Christmas yet… it’s CONFERENCE TIME!!!!! Can’t you hear the “clang, clang, clang” of reclusive writers and artists everywhere, busting open the manacles that bind to them their keyboards? Friday, they’ll be brushing the confetti of shredded stories off their sleeves, crawling out of their caves, and blinking up into the dazzling LA [...]
