by Ruthie | Jul 21, 2011 | Reading/Writing
Back in May, Gina Leigh Maxwell invited me to do a guest post on her blog, and this is what I came up with. Thought I’d repost today, just to have something fun up over the weekend. ——— Theres this scene in When Harry Met Sally where Harry and...
by Ruthie | Jul 20, 2011 | WIP Wednesday
I added a rather improbable 24,600 words to the WIP this week (now called MAN FOR THE MOMENT… for the moment), and I’m heading into the home stretch of character-torturing before giving them the happy ending they deserve. Meanwhile, I can say with pride...
by Ruthie | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Now that we all understand the grave importance of using a comma and a conjunction to join two independent clauses (right? RIGHT?), we can start looking at some of the other, wackier, pain-in-the-assier comma rules that writers tend to flub. And remember, I’m...
by Ruthie | Jul 13, 2011 | Reading/Writing
Cara McKenna told me on Twitter that she loves a good fessin’-up post in which a writer reveals everything she does wrong in her first drafts and has to fix up at the revision stage. I suppose gloating over other people’s mistakes does have its charms. Or,...
by Ruthie | Jul 13, 2011 | WIP Wednesday
Is there any other way to follow a cathartic revealing-of-emotional-scars-in-the-freezing-rain scene than with a rousing game of Ms. Pac-Man? Not in this book, there isn’t. Today’s WIP snippet is sponsored by My Childhood, which was, in turn, sponsored by...
