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Writing on Wednesday: Agent Queries—Progress Report

October 17, 2012 Susan 6 Comments

Two weeks ago I did a post about writing a novel synopsis. Then I sent out fifteen queries to literary…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: literary agents, querying, rejection, submissions, Writers Digest, writing

Writing on Wednesday: A Novel Synopsis for Cherry Bomb!

October 3, 2012 Susan 2 Comments

It’s time. After two and a half years of drafting and revising my novel, Cherry Bomb is ready to leave…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: C. B. Wentworth, Cherry Bomb, fiction, Jane Friedman, literary agent, Nathan Bransford, novel synopsis, protag, Susan Denard, synopsis hamburger, writing, writing a novel synopsis

(Not) Writing on Wednesdays….

September 12, 2012 Susan 2 Comments

Our youngest Granddaughter, Gabrielle Sophia, is visiting from Denver with our daughter, Beth, and our son-in-law, Kevin Davis. Gabby is…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Debbie Ohi, Inky girl, writing, writing cartoons, writing on Wednesdays

Writing on Wednesdays: Bonking

August 29, 2012 Susan 22 Comments

I’m working with a freelance editor to polish my novel before querying literary agents. She’s a terrific editor, and came…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: bonking, editors, freelance editors, Haven Kimmel, hitting the wall, marathons, Mississippi, Oxford, Square Books, The Solace of Leaving Early, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Keeping Kosher With Genres

August 15, 2012 Susan

It’s a balancing act—working on a (fiction) novel and an (creative nonfiction) essay simultaneously. After reading Richard Gilbert’s blog post…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: creative nonfiction, fiction, Kosher, Lee Gutkind, Narrative, Orthodox Jews, Richard Gilbert, writing, Yoknapatawpha

Circling Faith Paired with Stephen King?

August 1, 2012 Susan 2 Comments

I’m thinking of alternating “Wordless Wednesday” and “Writing on Wednesday” for hump day blog posts. Today I’ll do a little…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: authors, Barnes & Noble, bookstores, Circling Faith, Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole, writing

Must Love Words

July 26, 2012 Susan

A few weeks ago I participated in an “Orthodox Synchroblog” with a group of Orthodox Christians who blog. My post,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Syllable of Water, beauty, Henri Nouwen, iconography, icons, interior life, Richard Foster, save the world, spirituality, St. Augustine, Teresa of Avrila, words, writers of faith, writing

The Snarl and Gnarl of Revision

July 16, 2012 Susan

Three months ago today, I put my finished manuscript, Cherry Bomb: A Novel, in the mail to a freelance editor…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Syllable of Water, Circling Faith, delivery, Diane Glancy, Jackson, labor, Lemuria Books, midwife, Mississippi, revision, Wendy Reed, writing

>The Sucker, the Situation and the Shit

June 11, 2012 Susan 5 Comments

> During his craft talk on PLOT at the 2012 Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshop in Oxford (Mississippi) this past weekend,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Oxford, Square Books, Tom Franklin, workshops, writing, Yoknapatawpha

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