November 20
2009
And here we go with Day #5! Don't forget to look back at the entire week's entries in the master schedule, all updated with quotes and direct urls.
Friday, November 20th
Lisa Schroeder at Writing & Ruminating
: "Cupcakes are little bundles of happiness with frosting on top! Just thinking about cupcakes makes people happy, right? "
Alan DeNiro at Shaken & Stirred: "Of course these horrific displacements with refugees take place all over the world, but the way Katrina's human disaster impinged on the American experience, and into the common thread of the nation's discourse...it kicked my ass and pushed me to finish the novel. "
Joan Holub at Bildungsroman: "When I first began submitting manuscripts to publishers, my husband called my submissions “boomerangs” because I'd send them out to publishers and they'd come right back with a “no thanks”."
Pam Bachorz at Mother Reader: "There are lots of small parts of my life that found their way into my story, of course... like my father’s penchant for pointing up in the sky and shouting, 'Look! A dead bird!' "
Sheba Karim at Finding Wonderland: "My parents still worry about me, as parents are wont to do. It's hard to make a career as a writer, and there's a lot to be said for a stable paycheck, but I haven't once looked back."
R.L. LaFevers at Hip Writer Mama: "Also, I’ve had a rather satisfying adulthood, whereas my childhood was another matter. I felt powerless, voiceless, swept along by events I barely understood and couldn’t control. For me, those were the ages that were most ripe with material and issues that act as good story fodder."
Post title from R.L. LaFevers who, due to her recent Nathanial Fludd book, is my son's new favorite author!
