This actually happens, kids. Just this in, everybody. No longer do you have to rely on your friends, your fans (if you are so blessed as to have them) or even your middle school language arts teacher to inform you what kind of famous author you write like. Thanks to extreme advances in technology since…
Don’t jump! You guys will be fiiiine. Reader Carla, (omg u giyz inorite??) asked me in an email a very good question recently. “Why, Hildred, do the two mirrors of your blog have different titles? Yo, it’s true! The LiveJournal version is called “Hello From a Stranger” and all the subsequent mirrors, including the last…
Books take up space. Viable space. Space I could be using to store my multitude of CDs because I think they’re nifty. Also, books are made out of paper. You know what that means? If you’re a voracious reader, you’re killing a lot of trees. As an Oregonian I am programmed to tell you that…
Please tell me you see it. Please. My longest manuscript thus far is cappin’ around 500 pages. Maybe around 250k words. The usual accepted length for a “novel” (ie: not a novella or a short story) is around 50k words and at least over 100 pages. Of course, this is arbitrary, but please humor this…
I write so well I do it with one hand. As you may or may not have noticed (probably not, because let’s face it, I’m not ~famous~) I disappeared once again. Oops. Well, I really do have a fantastic reason for that. Two, actually. The first is that the last time you saw me I…