November 2010
5 posts
So, I don’t usually comment on my work life, since the pursuit of the novel and my daily editorial job are completely separate worlds. However, the greeting from this email that found its way into my inbox this afternoon may just be some of the best correspondence I’ve ever received as a writer, period:
Hi Meredith, I know you’re somewhat of an expert when it comes to flirting...
Generation Aye
To grossly simplify things, this has been a hell of a week. Up, down, all around. I got an email letting me know a very famous author has my manuscript open on her computer. Unending knots in my stomach, hours staring at my ceiling at insane A.M., and a new chain gum-chewing habit. None of these things—including the Stride Sweet Peppermint addiction and requisite jawache—are things I...
(I really needed good news today.)
A year ago, I didn’t even drink coffee, let alone use it as a verb.
Buh Nan Nuhs
Because the calendar now says November, the month during which the world decides “We are all writers for thirty days!”, I have quite appropriately decided this is an excellent time during which to be evaded by the ability to string individual letters into meaningful sentences. Thus, another list:
Remember that whole, “I can’t wait to be back on submission and not sleeping!...