Displaying all posts in the 'Real Writer' Category

May 14, 2010

The other day, fellow kt literary writer friend Stephanie Perkins asked people to post pictures of their desks on twitter.

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May 3, 2010

Hooray! As my fab agent mentioned on her blog, I have a deal for my next book!

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April 2, 2010

There are some writers who are able to keep themselves from reading reviews or discussions of their own books. I find these writers fascinating and I deeply envy their self-discipline, like I do people who knit entire sweaters or finish their taxes early or study to become doctors.

I am not one of those writers.

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March 12, 2010

My writerly hero interviews me + chances to win Albatross

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March 10, 2010

A visit to Michigan and my new strategy for public speaking!

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February 23, 2010

Next weekend, I will be returning to my homeland. Mid-Michigan! Specifically the East Lansing area (or, as we called it when I was in high school and were trying to feel cool, East L.A. GET IT? East Lansing Area?!) (…yeah, it wasn’t so funny even then).

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October 28, 2009

Sometimes when I’m procrastinating about writing books, I write plays. It allows me to indulge in my love affair with dialogue, plus I get to boss around real live people on the page.

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June 11, 2009

I went to see this band called Grizzly Bear the other night…I love their new CD and the concert was awesome, and they were also so adorable I wanted to shrink them all to 1/15th size and carry them around in my pocket.

See?

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March 31, 2009

Band Geeked Out is officially out on Wednesday, April 1st and Albatross is turned in and I’m percolating ideas like mad (somehow spring seems ideally suited for this!) Life is good.

So I figured I need to express gratitude toward the computer programs that made this possible…

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February 1, 2009

A cool article and a fight with my own story!

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