Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Year: 2004

  • Yet Another

    Was minding own business yesterday, working away on revisions, when yet another kissing scene came and slapped me in the face. And there was no mistletoe around anywhere. Got through it and continue to trudge along. Am at exactly mid-point, which is a bit further than I thought I’d be. Today, will probably get through…

  • Mysterious Kiss

    Ended up keeping the kiss. Only added three lines to the scene, but it works so it stays. At least until Beth (my CP) reads it. Have to face facts here: am just not a person who likes to write love scenes. Don’t even like reading them, most of the time. Unless they’re crisp and…

  • Kiss or Gasping Fish?

    Yesterday, I read the short three page scene currently up for revision. It was bad. Like so much of this ms. it flopped like a gasping fish on the page. What was supposed to be a tender kissing scene just wasn’t. What to do? Well, I didn’t have a clue. So I sent out an…

  • Elusive Faith

    Many published writers have weighed in since my entry yesterday and every single one of them said sort of the same thing in response to my idea that published writers must have an easier time keeping the faith. In essence, their response was “nope.” As my spiritual guru Marianne Williamson says “The top of one…

  • Keeping the Faith

    It’s not for fame and fortune. It’s not even for the thrill of saying “yes” when my mother-in-law asks for the trillionth time if I ever got that book published. The real reason I yearn to be published is because it will make it easier for me to keep the faith. This month’s RWR features…