Leitmotifs For My Characters
Feeling a bit of cabin fever? Try coming up with a theme song for each major character in your novel. Fellow incubee Anjali Mathur gave me this idea last spring when she said she put on certain songs when she…
Category: Rewriting
Friday Feast: Write, Revise, Repeat
We Bostonians are known for our strong feelings. After last week’s snowmageddon grump fest, it is now time to hunker down and focus. This week, we bring you links focused on writing and revision.
I Am Not a Success Story
There’s not a lot of advice I can give to other writers about how to be successful. The problem is that there are too many individual interpretations of “success.” To me, success looks like this: I can pay my electric…
Birthing Babies, Birthing Books
Once again, I find myself gestating two babies: my book and an actual human child, currently two weeks out from D-Day. This happened two years ago too, smack in the middle of the Novel Incubator. I went to class one…
Friday Feast: Tolstoy’s Mac & Cheese, Taipei’s Bookstore, Rejection, Success, and Rewrites
There are some great links this week, but all I can think about is macaroni and cheese. Homemade mac and cheese. Kraft mac and cheese. Mac and cheese with breadcrumbs, hot dogs, tuna … Nothing else matters. You can find…
This Draft Sucks Part II — Take A Break
This Draft Sucks – Part I ends with the following advice: if you think your draft sucks, put it away. Don’t look at it for a month and hope when you return with fresh eyes it won’t suck as badly…