We are fortunate here in mid-Michigan to have a wonderful independent bookstore, Schulers books. Originally from Grand Rapids, they now have two stores in the mid-Michigan. They do a great job bringing in authors for signings and talks.
Tonight Bryan Gruley was the featured writer. My friends Deb and Carol and I HAD to go to this one: the book is called Starvation Lake, and it is based on the lake that Deb's family has had a cottage on for over 70 years. Deb has taken us up there for the last five years for girls' weekends: they've been a blast.
Gruley gave an excellent talk and I'm looking forward to reading the book. Also in the crowd was Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Freedman. My head is swimming.
The advice of the day to all wannabe writers: "ass to chair".
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It's all very well to put ass on chair - it's the non-ass end that won't co-operate for me.
i think we all have our ummm . . . blocks. I'm wondering if 9/11 didn't break Gruley's block? He did a wonderful piece on the day after (he's a journalist for WSJ) and I'm wondering if it didn't make him think
Yep, ass to chair, with coffee. Picked up a copy of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" yesterday, looks to be an interesting mix of Jane Austen and zombie B movie... Wonder how the author got the idea?
Now THERE's a trip! And Ali, you surely have had GREAT success with your NANOS. Does it help that hubby Nanos too, do you think?
I plan obsessively, and knock out a thousand words a day at lunchtime, I think that's my big secret. I can only write about a thousand words at a time, anything after that and my brain turns to toothpaste.
Hubby started Nano'ing after I ignored him all month writing my first one...
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