I’ve seen quite a few people (writers) share this quote from Ursula Le Guin’s acceptance speech at the National Book Awards. (Le Guin received the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.): Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written […]
Archives for November 2014
Light in the Dark
In recent months, the goal has been simple: finish the first draft of the current novel by year’s end. It’s an ambitious goal, and it may be more like, “The current novel will be finished by the end of the first month of the year,” but the point is this: I’m close! And in that […]
The (Other) Juggling Writer
A friend pointed out that I am not the only Juggling Writer out there. I know many jugglers who also write — we’re all juggling writers. In this particular case, though, I’m talking Capital-J Capital-W Juggling Writer. From what I can tell, Nathaniel’s had his Juggling Writer site for a couple years. I’m a couple […]
Sticking to a Writing Plan
One day not so long ago, while working on a novel, I came to this conclusion: This would be much better as three novels. So that’s what I did. No longer was A Magic Life going to be just one book — it was now going to be three. And as I near the end […]