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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:20:32 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Going Back and Loving It:
Jody said, "I am very, very deep in writing mode. First draft. That means I don’t read much. I don’t want to get too entangled in the lives and emotions of characters who aren’t showing up in my book. I’ve tried before. And I’ve..." more
Friday, January 6, 2012 9:30:15 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Friday Five ... Going There:
Jody said, "It’s finally time. It’s time I finalize my resolutions. But mine really aren’t textbook resolutions. I learned, long ago, those never work for me. Instead, I assign myself goals and tasks. Past ones that have worked well:Eat more..." more
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:06:22 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled jodyfeldman @ 2011-12-07T11:40:00:
Jody said, "They say no good deed goes unpunished. I suppose if you look at this as a pessimist, my punishment meant me spending hours being unproductive with my own work. Um, I’m not a pessimist. But let me start at the beginning.Pudd’nhead Books..." more
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:18:24 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled I Was Floored (in One [and the Best] Sense of the Term) ... A Review:
Jody said, "I looked at the drop-down thesaurus attached to my word processing program (WordPerfect for those keeping score) to make sure the word floored was appropriate to the headline here. The synonyms included shocked, stunned, taken aback, cold-cocked,..." more
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:17:22 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled The Challengers: A Review (Sort Of) and A Giveaway (For Real!):
Jody said, "It’s the first Wednesday of the month which means it’s time for Barrie Summy’s Book Review Blow-Out. It’s been a bit since I’ve attended. It’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything. But I hope to be back..." more
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:03:30 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled The Most Important Structure:
Jody said, "I came home from NYC to find my front yard transformed from this ...to this ...After the OMG moment, my first thought: The neighbors must be happy to have the junkyard vanish. My second: What’s that little pyramid? (It's the white spot in the..." more
Monday, July 18, 2011 1:55:18 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled NYC Wasn’t All About the Food:
Jody said, "Then again, the food is always a major part of my travels. But in and around the eating, there was much stuff to do including ...My first visit to the U.N. Here’s where the General Assembly meets.Then it was time to cross town.I’d seen..." more
Monday, July 18, 2011 11:07:19 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled We End This Post, Eating My Way Through NYC:
Jody said, "You know how you’ve known about a deadline for a while? And you go about your business knowing it’s out there? And suddenly it’s not out there, but here? Sort of the same thing happened with my vacation. I needed a few days before..." more
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:10:29 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled How Jeremy Bender Messed Up and Lived to Tell the Tale: A Review ... And WIN the Book!:
Jody said, "First, full disclosure. I didn’t choose my review book this month by sheer happenstance. Author Eric Luper and I were both at a conference in Vermont this winter and managed to spend three days never seeing each other. That, plus our passing..." more
Friday, July 1, 2011 11:01:07 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like What I Imagined:
Jody said, "When I first get an idea for a book, a buzz of excitement travels through and hovers around me as I start to visualize the big picture. But when I’m ready to capture them in black and white, the fleeting, vibrant scenes I initially imagined..." more
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:38:26 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Yes, We're Still Building:
Jody said, "Yes, I’ve been very negligent in posting about the progress on my house. Yikes. It’s been almost two months. Then again, my attention necessarily zeroed in on family and finishing the latest draft of The Deep Downstairs, finally with my..." more
Friday, May 13, 2011 9:32:45 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled My Mom:
Jody said, "The memories of my mom reading to me start when I was five or six, but I guarantee she held me in her lap and read the words and pointed out details in the pictures when I was more interested in bottles and sleeping. The evidence comes from her love..." more
Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:09:55 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled If I Can Write Today, There’s No Stopping Me:
Jody said, "A little experiment today, boys and girls. Let’s observe how productive a writer can be while revising in a room that’s about 55 degrees. As long as we’re at it, let’s throw in several other variables:*Four workers ripping..." more
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:21:54 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Revision, Two Ways:
Jody said, "If I could have gone through a house renovation years ago, maybe the concrete example, right before my eyes, would have awakened my brain as to what needs to happen in revision. That patching and prettying aren’t enough. Real revision requires..." more
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:25:08 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Enter My Crazy Life:
Jody said, "I usually stick to writing stuff on this blog, but who knows how much writing stuff I'll have to talk about for a while. The reason ... for many years, I’ve wanted to add some space to the bedroom/bathroom area of our house. Be careful what..." more
Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:58:29 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled SSR Superstars!:
Jody said, "At the beginning of this school year, I received an email from Florida teacher Maria Smith who, it seems, contacted each author on this year’s Sunshine State Young Readers Award list. The letter started like this ...As a teacher at a Title 1..." more
Monday, March 28, 2011 8:47:34 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Progress Report (Where the heading is almost longer than the report itself):
Jody said, "Me = quiet.Me = last stages of revision before story gets mauled by my critique group.Me = back soon with report on one particular challenge and other details."
Monday, March 14, 2011 7:13:39 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Shifting Horses ... A Progress-ish Report:
Jody said, "The say it’s unwise to shift horses in mid-stream. So it’s a good thing my saddle days were limited only to trail rides as a kid. And it’s also a good thing that the only stream of water I intend to face today will come from my..." more
Monday, March 7, 2011 10:41:53 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Heartless (Progress Report):
Jody said, "At the heart of my books, I’ve realized, lies a commonality. They all have the potential to make readers think, “I wish that could have been me!”But where was that element in my WIP? Nowhere. Invisible. Non-existent. My partial was..." more
Monday, February 28, 2011 10:43:46 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled The No-Work Walk:
Jody said, "Usually I talk about the productivity of my walks and blah, blah, blah. Today? Not so much. The productive part came as a sort of confirmation. I’d always suspected that walking the same route every day acted like a visual white noise,..." more
Monday, February 21, 2011 7:50:12 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled About this Recent Silence: Progress Report:
Jody said, "I’ve been quiet. Too quiet. It’s not because I’m embarrassed about my lack of word-count progress on this WIP. It’s more a function of thoughts and their elusiveness. Like they’re up there in that cloud and you..." more
Friday, February 18, 2011 10:02:14 AM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled Friday Five:
Jody said, "1. I wrote 3,356 words this week. Bad news: It wasn’t on my WIP. Good news: it was for a class authors project. Great questions.2. The Big Melt this week meant the sidewalks cleared which meant I could take my walk which meant I had the..." more
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:54:53 PM
Jody Feldman wrote a blog post titled I've Been a Big, Fat Liar:
Jody said, "I would like to think I’ve always tried to be as truthful and as noble as George Washington in the cherry tree parable.Chances are, while I would have not chopped down a cherry tree – for starters, we didn’t own an axe; and oh, we..." more