Diane Sherlock
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College football gets going in earnest today. Irish are looking good after the first half. For football season in general, a book edited by Adam Schefter, one of the best in the business: Now then, about writing… There are character prompts surrounding us. On my walk this morning, there was a man with two huge…
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5 questions to ask your story from Charles Baxter via Glimmer Train. Nothing new, just a good reminder. At halfway down the stairs, a wonderful short story, “Three Pieces,” from Kate Maruyama, co-founder of Annotation Nation. By the way, we are open again with an annotation of Yate’s Easter Parade from Neal Bonser. Bonser also…
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Thought when I woke up to blue skies that we’d seen the worst of the fires and smoke. Then I went out and saw this: and it’s another 103 degree day. Don’t know how the firefighters do it, but we’re glad they do. (CBS studios in the foreground, fires are miles back in the hills)…
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Okay, I have to admit I’ve run dry. Going to the movies to see if I can refill the well. If that doesn’t work, art museums or galleries almost always do. There’s something about painting…. Here are two artists sites if you’re in the same fix. Filling the Dry Well from an artist who worked…
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Been back a couple of days, mostly getting organized again. Have started one of my classes for a certificate in postsecondary reading. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of reading. Getting my head back into my novel and have a self-imposed deadline of about 6 weeks to finish the first draft. A few links: book/daddy has…
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If Flannery Had A Blog has excerpts from novels, letters, bios, articles, etc.
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Been getting some submissions for Annotation Nation(on hiatus till September) that are either book reviews or life histories. Also saw a question on how to annotate in the discussion forums for College Confidential, so here are some helpful links: Peter Turchi has a list of resources. His own column (scroll down) is excellent. Read Francine Prose’s Reading Like…
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Have mentioned before how much I enjoyed Russo’s Straight Man. It’s one of the best comic novels I’ve read so far. He has a new one out and here he is in conversation with Sam Tanenhaus.
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Spent the day on revisions. Revised the look of the blog too. Still playing around with it. Had some great notes on GROWING CHOCOLATE, though it meant temporarily tossing chapter one and starting over. Took some time to rethink how to start it and was then able to use probably 80% of what I’d already written, but…
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Today I begin again. Not sure what happened, but I got off track. The regimen that works best for me is getting up early, working out either on a 3 mile hike in the hills or at the gym, then writing till lunch, running errands, etc. and then reading or doing something else in the…
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