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I’ve heard that you can tell how good a party was by how long it takes to recover from it. The same thing can be said about writers’ conferences. By that measure, this year’s Sleuthfest was a tremendous success, because I’ve been home for three days and I’m still not fully caught up on my [...]

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I found this excerpt from The Lovely Bones in my notebook this morning:
Ray’s way of describing such things made her feel as if she knew exactly what it felt like–not just what it looked like. He could evoke everything for her, with small verbal pulse points of which he was completely unaware.
I love this passage [...]

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The story that was originally 8,200 words is now 2,500. I might have cut too much.

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I’ve spent the past three weeks revising short stories, and I’m getting cranky about it. I realized this morning that I’m cranky because I need to write something new. Revision is good and necessary. Revision can be fun. Revision can even produce a deep sense of satisfaction when it’s done. But when takes too long, [...]

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That was a heck of a game last night. I didn’t really care who would win, and I haven’t followed football in years, so I hadn’t intended to do more than turn it on for background noise. At first, I thought it was going to be another dull blowout, but once New Orleans came back [...]

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