Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Year: 2008

  • Something to Blog About

    Dilemma of what to blog about if I’m not working on Traveling Girl solved. The citizen journalist thing is going to be quite a journey, so I’ll be blogging about that. Right now I’m still coming up with ideas for my first story. This morning I thought of something really, really fun. It feels fairly…

  • As The Notebook Fills

    I have a confession to make. After ten years clean, I have gone back to a bad, bad addiction. Yes, As The World Turns is once again my daily fix. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but sometime this summer (I knew I should have taught a summer session!) I tuned in. And was…

  • A Novel in a Year

    If 2009 is the year you are determined to finally write a novel, A Novel in a Year is the perfect companion. Based on the popular newspaper column by British writer Louise Doughty, it covers everything a would-be novelist needs to know, from getting started to finding ideas to editing and organizing that unruly pile of draft pages. Doughty has plenty…

  • Merry Skyping!

    Favorite Christmas present is my new webcam from Mike & Jessica because it allowed us to sort of spend Christmas Eve with Tim and Alicia in Texas. We even opened gifts via Skype! I’m really glad I’m learning this stuff as one of my BBC assignments will be Skyping from Detroit to Washington during inauguration coverage. Exciting! And now back…

  • Snow Day

    Orignally published in Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women, December 2008, Adams Media. It had snowed overnight, but I didn’t have time to admire the drifting flakes or enjoy the white lawn in front of my rented townhouse. Instead, I rushed to ready my boys for the sitter and school, prepare myself for work, and make…