So this weekend and early on in the week it has been wall to wall eldercare emergencies, with a couple of long ER nights and an unnecessary hassle because X was being a monster to Y ( Read more... )

A fascinating four volume memoir I enjoy revisiting, warts and all. (It's an interesting bridge to more modern memoir-writing, little credit as she's given).

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Late night reading of late, memoirs edition.

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Got back last night after several heavenly days up at
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A companion post to the one the other day on character investment.

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Up in beautiful Mariposa for a writing retreat. Much progress so far, and yesterday even woke up to RAIN! Very brief--it was gone by six--but hey, it's a first for the year.

Some rambling thoughts on the writer-reader contract.

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Some reflection on readers' investment in character. (We already know that writers are invested, even if those characters read flat and bloodless as paper to readers. How to change that?)

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A Valentine's Day reflection.

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I was barely thirteen when I first read Mary Stewart’s Madam Will You Talk. It set the bar high for romantic suspense for me-and all these years later, it still works ( Read more... )

I’ve wanted to talk about some of the Asian dramas that have obsessed me of late. But it’s so very hard to enthuse without being boring. These things are so very subjective! I’m always aware that what I think is not going to be what everyone thinks. But oh, if there is a chance someone might like what I like, it’s such a gift to share. (
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