by Yolande House | Apr 14, 2010 | Writing
1. Buy a cake for your book launch. Preferably a big one. 2. Write “BOOK LAUNCH” in gigantic letters on the cake. 3. Walk around the grocery store with this in your cart. That’s it! I did this in the fall when my...
by Yolande House | Mar 16, 2010 | Book Review
Last night I finished reading John’s Scalzi’s You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing. The book is a compilation of blog posts from The Whatever, Scalzi’s blog, from about 2001-2005. I had heard...
by Yolande House | Jan 8, 2010 | Writing
2009 marked my first year writing more regularly. I had always done well with the deadline provided by National Novel Writing Month and National Novel Editing Month, but I had trouble outside of these and the other mini-challenges I set for myself. So in 2009 I signed...
by Yolande House | Nov 23, 2009 | Writing
I’m thick into National Novel Writing Month, but I saw this book at a friend’s house, scanned the introduction, and have to record this great description of “story” versus “experience”: There is a difference [between story and...
by Yolande House | Oct 5, 2009 | Self-Care, Writing
I’ve had two health-care professionals now tell me that I need to be more careful when researching for my childhood memoir. I see their point – I am visibly stressed, as it has been very difficult to be reminded of uncomfortable things that had faded from...
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