Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Year: 2004
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Close
So close to the end of the book. Just two more scenes to write/revise. Am pretty sure will finish today. Had to run an Xmas errand first thing today, but figured I could use the drive time to think about funeral scene (that’s the one that I have to create from scratch) and immediately lots…
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Black Moment Mood
Revised the Black Moment yesterday and was in the perfect mood to do so. Something happened to me the night before that sent my mood straight to black and I didn’t think I could write at all but when I saw what scene I needed to revise, I thought, okay, now is the perfect time…
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Next Novel Knocking
Read Tom Perrotta’s latest novel a few days ago (as all his novels have been, this one is excellent and features a guy who can’t grow up). Was fascinated with his point of view choices and the way they helped shape the novel. Realized that what was going on in my murky subconscious was multiple…
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State of Eve
38 pages left to revise before I can turn around and revise it all again. Also will add at least one new scene that I avoided last time. It’s a funeral scene, so no wonder with the avoidance. Yesterday was a heavy duty writing day. Only got 11 pages done, but in those pages I…
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Three Women Writers
Anne Lamott has an on-line diary and someone sent me the link to this entry in which she talks about the lies told at writer’s conferences. Summarizing loses all the sweet silly sincere Anne flavor, but pretty much she says conferences tell lies to unpublished writers. The attending agents and editors only pretend to want…