Since I’ve been here in Tucson, my work ethic has flown out the window. I had grand ideas of doing tons of revisions on my novel, finishing my line-edits on a friend’s novel, and possibly writing the first draft of a short nonfiction essay. Ha. Instead I’ve given myself over to what I do bestContinue reading “Postcard from Tucson #3: Orgy Edition”
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Postcard from Tucson #2
Amandine and I are in Tucson on vacation again. We left on Tuesday and it was kind of an eventful day. Shortly before getting in the car to head for the airport, I got an e-mail from a literary agent I’d queried about the new novel, requesting the full manscript. That was exciting, because I’ve onlyContinue reading “Postcard from Tucson #2”
Songs of Humanism and Experience
(With apologies to William Blake, this is a post I’m writing specifically to submit to this Humanist Symposium thingie for bloggers I just learned about—the next one will be hosted April 4th by Letters from a Broad, a blog whose author is also a novelist.) Given the phase of music enthusiasm I’ve been going throughContinue reading “Songs of Humanism and Experience”
Persuasion
I had a religious upbringing. The religion I was raised in, Mormonism, was an evangelical kind, which means we were interested in converting other people to it. In my mid-twenties I had an intellectual falling-out with my church and left. Thanks to Facebook, I’m now in touch with a lot of old friends from myContinue reading “Persuasion”
Mothers and Children
When I have an intimidating pile of books I want to read and am not sure where to start, sometimes I’ll go through and read the just first chapter of each book in turn. Then I’ll read the second chapter of each, and so on, until I get hooked on one and drop the others.Continue reading “Mothers and Children”
My Rules for Writing
This week the Guardian published a piece in which 29 writers give their rules for fiction writing. Here are mine: 1. Realize no one cares about your stupid novel. Seriously. Even if it gets published. Even if it wins the freakin Nobel Prize for Literature, most people you pass on the street are never goingContinue reading “My Rules for Writing”
A Music Post
I know I’ve been boring, what with all the shop-talk about novel-writing and whining about how hard revisions are. So for a change of pace, today’s post is on music. I’ve been wasting a lot of time lately listening to music when I should be revising my novel instead, for a couple of reasons. One,Continue reading “A Music Post”
Not Sucking Is Hard
Before I get into the subject of this post, a couple of news items. First, I’ve had another essay accepted for publication, this time in a literary magazine called Hotel Amerika. This is a really exciting place to get published, because although they’re a relatively young journal, launched in 2002, they’ve already had something likeContinue reading “Not Sucking Is Hard”
Snow and Settling
Holy cow, it’s snowing a lot here. The snowbanks are taller than my toddler. This is the front of our little townhouse—you can see that the snow is as tall as our trash can. So I got some great news this past week. One of my nonfiction essays got accepted for publication in a literaryContinue reading “Snow and Settling”
Still Alive, Kinda
Sorry, just a slapdash howdy this week. I’ve been down with a nasty flu bug the past several days. Novel manuscript all typed up. Into revisions now. Woot. Read The Backslider by Levi S. Peterson. Great, as promised. I think that was the first cowboy-themed novel I’ve ever read, and it was refreshing, a niceContinue reading “Still Alive, Kinda”
Therese Doucet 