Monthly Archives: December 2009

When you are an unagented author with a plot thrilling your heart, an antagonist disturbing your dreams, and an unpubbed manuscript collecting stray bits on your hard drive, you rewrite.  I’ve been the fortunate recipient of some targeted advice from a kind and insightful agent, so naturally, I have endeavored to apply it. Or, as my writing buddies so eloquently stated, “You’d be stupid not to.”  One can’t argue with such literary powers of persuasion.  To that end, I have, as of today, completed said rewrite.  I have six copies going out to people whom I both admire and trust …

  November blew in and out sans any new blog posts from me.  I’d like to say I was on deadline for an eager publisher, but I’m still rewriting my novel based on the kind invitation to resubmit from an agent with a sense of humor.  Now I got that kind invitation back on October 1st, but I had a few weeks of serious mulling, moping, mapping anew.  And a dear, sweet friend came to visit who has earned my undivided attention.  But a subroutine kept working on plot details even while we danced to Stevie Wonder’s Superstition at three …