Posted in Writing on Jan 30th, 2006 5 Comments »
I wrote all this up the other day and as a result of a rare browser crash, lost it all. So here we go again…..
I was thinking about what Laura said about the critiquer having a duty to be honest and not just say nice things, and I have to say that I’m of two […]
Posted in Writing on Jan 15th, 2006 5 Comments »
When I started critiquing with others, way back in college at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, my poetry teacher, Richard Jackson, had only a few words to say at the first class workshop: When your work is up, keep your mouth shut and listen.
It was a lesson repeated in every critique class the entire […]
Posted in Bombshells on Jan 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
So I’m working my way through the galleys of Dead Reckoning and realize — with horror — that I must have been addicted to adverbs while writing that book.
Not good. I’ve never seen so many -ly words in all my life.
Now, maybe it’s good that my critique group didn’t notice (even the really nitpicky one) […]
Posted in Living on Jan 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
Remembering a good man