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Occasionally, I have one of those deeply humbling moments. These include, but are not limited to, such things as trying to help my son with his math homework, anything technological, finding out Bono is 46, checking my bank balance, realizing my mother was right about...

The first draft, she is finished. It wasn't pretty, but it got done. On the last day of my deadline, I was sitting in the Tea Lounge, typing wildly. The keys literally started to fly off my laptop. I was typing without an X, S, and D key. The space bar began to stick....

Walking down Fifth Avenue, I passed a small, hand-lettered sign on a silver door that read All Mail to Laundromat. But for some reason, I read it as All Hail to Laundromat. I looked around to see if anyone was bowing and offering the head of a goat to the rows of...

This may be the shortest blog in my history, akin to LJ haiku, because I've got to get my butt and my laptop (hmmm, which one is easier to lug?) to Tea Lounge and write. Already running late and it's only 7:10 am. But the big news on my block is that AGATB and RA have...

I'm just finishing up the last of the packing before the big move on Friday, and it's got me feeling nostalgic, maybe a little melancholy. I've lived in this apartment for 9 1/2 years, longer than I've ever lived in one place. I reached up to the top of the closet...

I have been shamed into posting. It has been pointed out to me, um, by several people, that I have not blogged in a month. And as for the person who posted "Robin Zander from Cheap Trick told me he wants you to give us a new post," thank you. I have not laughed that...

A whole month between posts? Bad! Bad author! ! Nose in the paper, nose in the paper! I can't believe it's May. Did April happen for me? Did I forget to sign up for April this year? Hmmm... I'm typing at the kitchen table, sitting in possibly the world's most...

Can't think pithy thoughts. Can't finish novel. Can't write LJ entry. So instead, I'm having a guest star blogger: Miss Rachel Cohn. I'm posting her response to my last blog and going back to the writing of third novel. And now, Rachel Cohn: Dear Ms....

Sometimes, when the writing life gets a little too isolating and I start channeling Jack Nicholson in "The Shining", I seek out others of my tribe. So, I've been having writing dates with the fabulous, funny, and very cool Rachel "Don't Call Me Rach" Cohn. (If you...

Two posts in one day? What are the other signs of an impending apocalypse? Okay, folks, I've officially climbed down off the ledge. Um, yeah, so after my big freakout, I ate some veggie dumplings, bought some mascara at Sephora, reminded myself that I was not a heart...

I don't know if anyone read Naomi Wolf's article this past weekend in the NYTBR, but here's the quick recap. It was basically talking about Gossip Girls and The Clique, et al, and bemoaning the fact that girls were reading these series that were filled with such...

Quote of the Day: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." -Joan Didion Exactly. But then, that's why she's Joan Didion, folks. I'm trying to feel my way through book #3. (I'm...