This past February, I lost a self-published adult fiction contest. There were only sixty-six entries, and Devil's Blood didn't even make it into the top twenty. Want to know how I felt? Awful. Dreadful. Worthless. A failure. Hopeless. Like a old sack of potatoes not good enough for anything but the garbage dump. It took … Continue reading A Note on Persistence and Optimism
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Overload
Editing urges come in waves. I spend all my free time for days editing a manuscript. At the end of that editing run, my brain feels like warm jelly. Wibbly-wobbly. This is the point at which I begin my break from editing, from that manuscript. Within that break, I play video games, catch up on … Continue reading Overload
English Grammar (for Dummies?)
I spent some time today flipping through English Grammar Workbook for Dummies, because why not, and it struck me how much I’d forgotten from English class. If you are like me, you went over grammar in grade school and never heard about it again until college when your Creative Writing instructor commented on your prodigious … Continue reading English Grammar (for Dummies?)
Beatrice B. Morgan 