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- Blog updates (3)
- Flash Fiction Fridays (10)
- Learning Martial Arts (7)
- Old Diaries (2)
- On Learning How To Write (64)
- Tales from Chicago (19)
- The Business of Being a Writer (79)
- Working on my novels (58)
- Working with Paints (9)
Entries by Title
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- Renee's Rosen's Book Launch Party
- Over 365 days and 500 train rides later...
- It's Finn-bruary!
- Love Is Murder 2007
- Five paintings uploaded
- My first Jiujitsu tournament
- The Dockens in Korea
- Writing, not Blogging
- The Beast also known as the Outline
- The Worst Rejection
- What is the truth about this business?
- The Story of Agent #2
- The Story of Agent #1
- New Author Interview: KRISTY KIERNAN
- Love Is Murder, and so is the Query Process
- Another partial request
- Redemption for the month of January
- Chasing Jackfruits Shapes Up
- Logo Designs: Toxicology
- Jackfruits: The Lessons
- Looking Back: 2005
- Happy Holidays!
- Lessons in the Word "Help"
- Among Other Things, Toxicology
- New projects
- Walls
- Chasing Jackfruits Update
- An Interview about a 13-year Old Script
- The journey begins...
- The Black Belt Test Countdown Begins
- MJ Rose's Good Books/ Good Cause Campaign
- Rejections: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
- My Famous Family
- A Writing Partner?
- BLINK and a corporate story
- Letters to Likha
- New painting: Tribute to Women #5
- Because the walls need new paintings...
- Beyond the Barrelman
- One, Two (194 words)
- Confession
- Which one? (199 words)
- One Question Interview: Gayle Trent
- The Needle (196 words)
- Hapkido Demonstration
- Rejection Letter of the Week: Jodie Rhodes Literary Agency
- As Usual (199 words)
- The Show (192 words)
- The edits have been typed, Next stop: the Query Letter
- The Cycle (446 words from high school)
- Novel update
- Busy
- 2nd Draft Read-Through Completed!
- Apart (199 words)
- The year of my black belt test
- Coping
- Crossed (200 Words)
- Old Diaries: Entry from March 22, 2001
- New One Question Interview
- Just Float (A Love Story): 196 words
- Gantsilyo, an independent Filipino Film
- Should I just give up on Diggers?
- 7th Annual Love Is Murder Mystery Conference
- Black out (199 words)
- Old Diaries: Entry from October 5, 1999
- Job update
- Everyone should have an archnemesis
- I'm off the market
- New blogger and more on the job search
- The end has been re-written
- Fortune Cookie
- First job offer (well, second)
- Author Newsletters
- Tribute to my old office
- Exciting times
- Painting in progress: Michigan Avenue
- Why write?
- Let's talk about art and writing
- Can I use my blog to get a job?
- Boxes, the nonfiction version
- When characters refuse to grow
- A New Taboo
- Amazing Dean
- What's important? What's urgent?
- Happy 4th month anniversary, Diggers submission
- Before we bid flash fiction good-bye...
- FlaFiMo Ends!
- Progress report on novel #2
- The Day After Thanksgiving
- As promised...
- Changes...
- Writer's block, and a writing job?
- Friends at work
- Three weeks down
- "L" Chronicles
- Diggers reviewer #10
- Work, work, work
- Haste and a new One Question Interview
- So when exactly am I supposed to worry?
- Flash Fiction 101
- Agent Talk
- Will you still love me if you knew that I...? (Part II)
- Literary bloggers on the air
- One week down
- Bells of Balangiga: a little bit of history
- The show must go on...
- Between drafts
- FlaFiMo begins!
- At what point do they scream?
- It feels like Jason vs Freddy
- Brainstorming
- Nothing fresh
- A few versions of me
- The support of family and friends
- Time travel, fortune teller, or Archangel Gabriel himself
- The required "What I did during my vacation" post
- On vacation
- Out of character
- My mother feels bad about her fat face
- This thing called TALENT
- Worth checking out...
- Paper
- Manuscript on eBay
- Who owns the art?
- When time is inconsequential
- Meet the new Brown Belts
- Authors as Bloggers
- The sober writer
- Backspace
- Let's talk about Paris
- More feedback?!
- Another DIGGERS Review
- New look yet again
- Toughening up
- I want to meet Stephen King
- The chick lit that may never be
- Buzzing
- Drawing again
- The monsters in my head
- The thing with falling...
- The six week wait is almost over!
- Grate Expectations
- Free book! Get your free book here!
- Of rats and dead birds
- Are you there, Mom?
- Tomorrow, I will
- Feeding the Amazon obsession
- Please don't ask me
- So you're not in the U.S.
- Diggers getting more editor feedback
- Diggers past the slush pile
- The art of not writing books
- Hand over that nicotine patch!
- Missing the SIZZLE
- First draft is done
- My life in theater
- Poverty, a Pulitzer, and the worst movie in the world
- While I was sleeping
- A rather nice rejection
- Who wants to read an unpublished writer's blog?
- Clinton, Moore, Bly and I
- A summer weekend
- Sending you off to other places
- Will you still love me if you knew that I...?
- Throw up, then clean up.
- Whips and treats
- Writer's Digest Writer's Conference
- Personifying my muse
- Celebrations
- Why My Short Stories Haven't Sold
- SASE Blunder
- Progress Report on Novel #2
- Some good out of a bad advice
- Did you find what you were looking for?
- Rejections back and forth
- Inspired by VS Plagiarism
- Facts in fiction. Fiction in facts.
- BLINK receives another!
- Ten Percent of Nothing
- Cheating on the protagonist
- Is your first novel semi-autobiographical?
- I am... not
- An Excerpt for Lent
- Today's rejection: Agni Magazine
- How far will you go?
- On plagiarism
- My first rejection: The Atlantic Monthly
- The milk has turned sour
- My lottery ticket
- Novel idea to promote Ford's cars to women
- Promotions, Promotions
- Of Laptops and coffee shops
- Objections to Confessions
- The Mediocre Dread
- The Controversial Word Count
- Making Light: Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog
- Keeping a Journal
- The friends we meet
- Company is temporarily closed due to major family illness
- Sleep + Relaxation = Creativity?
- Coming soon: e-Book Readers
- Spelling blues
- "Damned mob of scribblers"
- The "Standard" Book Contract
- Book of the future?
- Of chores and novels
- Changes come in 3's
- Doubts, oh so many doubts
- She can fly
- NY Times article in 2002: Think You Have a Book in You?
- The competition
- How it feels to write a first novel
- How do you come up with stories?
- Encouraging the Deviant
- The 1-2-3s of POV
- Don't judge a book by its cover
- "Writers are troublemakers."
- Where did 2003 go?
- Writers Pluck
- The boss is out
- The value of a partner
- Actually writing
- Additional pressure on the first novel
- On hiring a professional copyeditor
- "Nothing is random in a first chapter!"
- Cliché
- What's in your backpack?
- The technical stuff
- On Learning How To Write (the extended version)
- The loss of innocence
- Stuck on a sentence
- "Man, that was a great book!"
- Interviewing is more than research
- Odd writing exercises, anyone?
- Diva-esque
- The value of writing competitions
- Back to basics: Why do writers write?
- What do you mean he's not Superman?
- Seven Amateur Mistakes
- Uh-oh, the Chicago marathon is over
- What big words you have!
- What scares me?
- The Poor Man's Copyright
- Who cares about those funny, little island people?
- Toss that first novel?
- How I came to think that I can write a novel
Entries by Month
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- July 2007 (1)
- March 2007 (1)
- February 2007 (2)
- December 2006 (1)
- October 2006 (1)
- June 2006 (1)
- April 2006 (1)
- March 2006 (1)
- February 2006 (7)
- January 2006 (5)
- December 2005 (2)
- November 2005 (2)
- October 2005 (2)
- September 2005 (1)
- August 2005 (1)
- July 2005 (3)
- June 2005 (5)
- May 2005 (2)
- April 2005 (7)
- March 2005 (6)
- February 2005 (12)
- January 2005 (9)
- December 2004 (12)
- November 2004 (23)
- October 2004 (12)
- September 2004 (20)
- August 2004 (12)
- July 2004 (9)
- June 2004 (6)
- May 2004 (9)
- April 2004 (9)
- March 2004 (13)
- February 2004 (9)
- January 2004 (6)
- December 2003 (8)
- November 2003 (20)
- October 2003 (4)
- September 2003 (1)
