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, , , becca January 10, 2011

Sometimes I Beat Myself Up.

I just saved and closed my manuscript after writing these words: FUNNY! CANT YOU WRITE SOMETHING FUNNY? WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU’RE FUNNY, REMEMBER? NOW PROVE IT. — I think here’s my problem. I’m trying to write like someone else. Not so the book sounds like someone else wrote it. (Not that I
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, , , becca November 11, 2010

“Addiction” is probably too strong a word.

Because I could stop any time. I could. Hi. I’m Becca. And I’m a Slackaholic. (Parenthetical side note: Do you find it odd – or am I alone on this – that we add the whole “-oholic” ending to everything we consider a bad habit. Are you really addicted to choc-ohol? Really? And I clearly
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, , , , becca November 4, 2010

Taking a tiny break

Well, okay. I finished a draft of a very small thing. I sent it out to three fine readers and to Husband, who is very busy cursing the rain in Hawaii and probably won’t be able to read any sort of early-reader chapter books any time soon. And yesterday I took the draft (which I
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, becca October 21, 2010

Starting Over

It’s the good kind of starting over – the productive kind. I’ma tell you a story. Once upon a time, I was a young mom with little kids*. I loved that job. I was pretty good at it. My kids were funny and smart and obedient. Not particularly coiffed or well-dressed, but if I had
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, , becca October 20, 2010

And how shall we celebrate?

(*trumpet fanfare*) Ivie is turned in to the Publishers! After 3 drafts and then a longer third revision than I estimated, she’s fully dressed and ready to be seen. I’m interested to see how this pans out. It’s strange that my self-esteem isn’t so tied up in this book as it has been in the
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, , , , , becca October 9, 2010

I shouldn’t have deleted it.

I get rather a lot of comments on my blog that you don’t see. More than the kind you do see. These are the kind with a zillion links to famous people I don’t know, and sometimes written in Russian/Cyrillic alphabet, and containing Offers. Such as the one I just deleted, that I should maybe
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, becca October 6, 2010

And that, friends, is why we revise.

So I’m going through my manuscript, twenty or so pages every day, and hey – guess what? I have a basketball season ending in December. Um. Basketball does not end in December. As you probably know. As everyone in the world probably knows. *Sigh* Could I change the sport? Sure, if I wanted to redo
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, , becca October 2, 2010

Review/Revision time.

It’s time to re-read the Ivie novel. So, naturally, all I want to do is write another story. Actually, that’s not so natural for me. Usually I’d want to take a long nap, and then eat a great deal of buttered something, and then take a few weeks off to let Ivie percolate, as though
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