What Korea Feels Like

by | Nov 7, 2011 | Living Abroad

Friends and family have been asking me why I haven’t started my long-promised Korea blog yet. In short, my two months here have flown by (helped by the fact that I was sick for 3.5 weeks) as I’ve been working, travelling, meeting new people and adjusting to an...

Book launch publicity tip!

by | 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...

2009 Writing Wrap-Up

by | 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...

Crafting Stories from our Vast Experiences

by | 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...