Yes.  I’m working on some edits.  I suppose everyone has a different way of approaching these things.  When I’ve got time, I print out the darn thing, attack it with pens and post-it notes—and then re-type the entire manuscript into the computer, … [Read more...]

I don�t know where you were today six years ago, but I can tell you where I was: in my Greenwich Village apartment, watching the office buildings across the street from where my husband worked fall down... I was in Madison, ready to walk to my morning law class on … [Read more...]

“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I fill you with Naming. Be! Be, butterfly and behemoth, be galaxy and grasshopper, star and sparrow, you matter, you are, be! Be caterpillar and comet, Be … [Read more...]

So, there�s been an apocalypse.  The world is in trouble.  You got this gig driving trucks for a living, and it ain’t easy.  There’s Ice Reavers.  There’s other drivers wanting to tear you down.  There’s megalomaniacs with your … [Read more...]

Ah.  Grace Paley has died. Writer and activist, little rascal.  Here is an interview, with Salon: When I write the first sentence, I really don’t know if I’m making a poem or a story. But by the time I’m at my third line, I know what it’s … [Read more...]

Still writing.  Of course.  Revising.  Adding.  Mixing.  Cutting & Pasting.  Cheesecake is good fuel.  Poodles good company.  Five Cat Death Squad beating the living mice out of each other.  Hair tangled (excellent … [Read more...]

“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself—the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to … [Read more...]

Yesterday, while waiting for Daisy to finish up with her groomer, I went to Starbucks and found this on my cup: Improvisers don’t look at change as an obstacle; we look at it as fuel.  We know that the next great idea lies just on the other side of the change.  … [Read more...]

Daisy was in dire need of grooming, so off we went this morning.  As you can see, she is now very nicely clipped and trimmed.  As for what I was doing in Chicago, every year Levy Entertainment, one of the nation’s largest book distributors, chooses authors to … [Read more...]

I’m traveling again, starting tomorrow, and will not return home until Friday.  This is another promotions-related adventure, so no complaints from me.  But after this, no more travel (I think) until late October.  When I go to the dentist.  I simply … [Read more...]