If you follow me on Twitter, you might have saw me mention the teenage angst going on in my neighborhood last week. There was a MAJOR breakup between my teenage neighbor and his girlfriend. Afterwords, the girl cried hysterically outside the boy's house for about ten minutes --- and just when I was about to go outside and save some of her dignity, she left. The plot thickens. On Sunday morning, there was a little present for the teenage neighbor. Someone had spray-painted "DIE" on his … [Read more...]
Under the Sun
February 17, 2010 Read Comments
I was talking with a writer friend who was freaking out over a recent sale she saw on one of the publishing trade websites. "That's MY story!" she wailed. "I should just stop writing my novel now because this other writer has just sold MY book!" After talking her off the ledge, I tried to reassure my friend that just because another writer has written a book with a similar idea doesn't mean that it's the same story. No matter how hard we try, there are no new ideas/stories under the … [Read more...]
