Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Personal, Writing/Reading on Jan 21st, 2010
October 2009
At the end of October, I spent 3 days at the Surrey International Writers Conference. The one thing I heard over and over was to write every day. Most writers agreed it wouldn’t be great writing or even something they would use in their final manuscript. The idea was to get in the habit [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Nov 8th, 2009
I just finished Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. It is not entirely fair to compare these writers to Janet Evanovich. Janet’s books tend to be almost a light cozy. Sex and violence are minimally on the page or completely off screen. Janet’s stories are intriguing but not complicated. The characters [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 25th, 2009
A Writers Conference
I have never been to a Writers Conference so I didn’t know what I was in for. Sure the sessions and speakers were posted on the site, but you never really know until you go, right? A year ago I started asking every writer I could find locally and asked for a regional [...]