Getting organized to write: filing

May 062013
 
 May 6, 2013  Book Reviews, Organization, Writing 2 Responses »
Getting organized to write: filing

I probably have close to 1000 file folders. All colours. They’re in various places, including a 4-level horizontal filing cabinet, a smaller narrow filing cabinet, drawers in two desks, several Omni carts, several other movable carts with file folder spaces on the top and plastic drawers underneath, and a few file boxes. The files are in many categories. Files with stories and articles that have been published. Files with stories and articles that might never be published. Resource files on a variety of topics. Files on various areas necessary for writers. A file for each book of the Bible. Files [ Read more...]

I love the book “Write Away” by Elizabeth George

Nov 182008
 
 November 18, 2008  Book Reviews, Writing, Writing fiction 3 Responses »
I love the book "Write Away" by Elizabeth George

I'm having lots of warm, fuzzy feelings while finally reading a book I picked up by chance  last summer.  The book is Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, by Elizabeth George, author of over a dozen great mystery novels. Part of the reason I'm enjoying it is that I can now cross "Write book on how to write fiction" off my to do list.  While no two authors write the same way, she's pretty well nailed how I write – or at least how I try to write. Not seat-of-the-pants-hope-it-works-will-have-to-do-lots-of-writing-if-it-doesn't  (although I just tried that [ Read more...]