by jennifer | Sep 2, 2015 | Writing Life
The other morning, I came back from an early morning run, tired and needing to do more writing. Yet as I walked up to the house, I noticed a squirrel moving oddly. I watched the squirrel as it slowly and carefully made its way to our front yard. Where it promptly...
by jennifer | Aug 15, 2015 | Writing Life
Those who know me, know that my big complaint from when my kids went to camp last summer was that I didn’t have a project to work on and I didn’t get to have Oreos for dinner. My novel was on submission and I was too antsy to really be working on something...
by jennifer | Jun 15, 2015 | Writing Life
Without obsession, life is nothing. –John Waters To write, I use the program Scrivener, about which I have become downright evangelical. It has all sorts of lovely features (chapter synopses on a corkboard, ability to keep research right there, easy to slide...
by jennifer | Jul 29, 2014 | Writing Life
I’m sure by now everyone has seen Weird Al’s “Word Crimes,” but just in case… And I love this list of writers’ words. Dead on!
by jennifer | May 11, 2014 | Family History, Writing Life
Recently I went to New Orleans for a girls’ weekend, and geek that I am, I took a few hours for myself to sneak over to the New Orleans library to research my family in the Times-Picayune. My grandfather was a real estate developer in the area, so I knew there...
by jennifer | Jan 22, 2014 | Writing Life
I’ve been working my tuchus off on the novel lately, which means everything else–short pieces, genealogy, my children–have been taking a back seat to my characters Rose and Dottie. But over the long weekend, I finished my last rewrite (only took six...
