ruth | June 26, 2010
I’m back from my desperately needed vacation. My goals were to relax, read & write a little. I read a book that somehow had been on my shelf for nearly a year. I relaxed which had an expected result – I’ve long felt the building where I work is not the healthiest place. After being [...]
ruth | June 5, 2010
In an effort to reconnect with my WIP, I’m taking a break from my novels’ world. Just for a time. No notes. No research. No deliberately thinking about plot, etc. Will it work? Time will tell. Between now & then, there’s an old piece that has been asking for attention – a different genre and [...]
ruth | May 27, 2010
Well, the short story has officially been shelved. As much as I wanted to submit to that anthology, the story just wasn’t coming together. Perhaps without the deadline, I’ll be able to wrangle it into something cohesive (and hopefully interesting) and send it elsewhere. I decided to make a list of things I’d like to [...]
ruth | November 5, 2009
At some point in the last few years, the music I listen to while I write has changed. When I wrote my first book, I couldn’t listen to music with words. Characters found theme music in Babylon 5 soundtracks or classical music. Battle scenes were written to the soundtrack of Mel Gibson’s Hamlet. For short [...]
