Necessary evils: Revising

Anais Nin once said “we write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” Beautiful sentiment, right?
But what about when you’re tasting it for the eighth time that week, and this time, it’s under deadline? Talk about indigestion.
And that’s exactly how I see revision quite often. ..a third, fourth, or fifth [...]

New Year, New Rituals?

Oh, the freeing, nagging glory of rituals.
Some of the best writers had them. Some of the rest of us still do.
Junot Diaz writes in the bathroom, perched on the edge of the bathtub to find enough solitude to finish a chapter. Janet Evanovich writes strictly from a visual storyboard. Stephen King writes ten pages [...]

4 years and counting!

I figured someone ought to make a note of the auspici momentu propitio um.
Right. We try that again!
Happy 4th Birthday, PC!
It's been a while!
 
I'm going to quote Debora here, because, well…

On January 7th 2006 we started the PC Yahoo group – but Jennifer, Cyn and I had been crit partners for a [...]