Musings of a Novelista

Back in July, I was lamenting about the free wi-fi at Barnes & Noble because it would be just another procrastination tactic that I would use instead of working on my novel.
I just got in from Borders tonight, and I found out that they are also going to have free wi-fi starting in October [...]

This past weekend, I revisited Francine Prose’s craft book, Reading Like a Writer. She posed the question: Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
You can ask 10 different people and probably get different answers. I always answer with that dreaded phrase: “It depends.”
When I first starting writing, I really didn’t know anything about the craft and structure [...]

At lunch today, I was reading some links from Tayari Jones’s blog and she had a funny link to an article titled Managing Writers in the Workplace – A Guide for Employers.
The article even gives advices to managers by type of writer (poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers).
I found this part of the article funny (and true [...]

Okay, so I admit it, I’m a late bloomer. I always seem to lag behind the approved timeline of what’s considered “normal.”
It’s not that I didn’t know I wanted to be a writer as a kid, but I didn’t even start to think about it seriously until 2006. Until this time, I didn’t [...]

I’ve still been following the Simon & Schuster’s Blogfest 2009, and today’s question is “Have You Ever Just Wanted to Give Up?”
Love the answers. Here’s a few the resonated with me:
“I think the difference between being a writer and not being a writer isn’t whether or not you get paid, it is not giving up.” [...]