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Back in this blog post I told y'all about a writing retreat I went to a couple of years ago.
It was at the beautiful vacation home of Kirby Larson.
(l to r) Kirby Larson with Winston the Wonder Dog, Susan Hill Long, Augusta Scattergood, and me |
In June of 2014, Kirby Larson invited Augusta Scattergood, Susan Hill Long, and me to have a writing retreat at her beautiful vacation home in Washington state. We all jumped at the chance.
Here we are with Winston the Wonder Dog. (l to r): Kirby, Susan, Augusta and me |
I was reading Matthew’s latest book, WISH, a few weeks back and remembering how much I had also loved his mini technology-bash in HELLO! HELLO! and it dawned on me I should invite him on the blog. It is such … Continue reading
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I've written ten novels and I've approached revision the same for all of them.
After feedback from my editor, I just dove in head first.
Sometimes working in chronological order.
Sometimes skipping around.
Usually fixing the easy stuff first.
Saving the harder stuff for last.
But for my latest work in progress, I'm taking a new approach and I think I like it!
First, I read through my "to do" list of revisions about a gazillion times, so that I had most of it firmly committed to memory.
Then, instead of diving in head first, I took a deep breath and very slowly, methodically read through the entire manuscript.
As I read along, I used Post-It notes to mark the parts I wanted to change or where I wanted to add something.
So excited to share this news (from Publishers Weekly Children's Bookshelf):
Janine O'Malley of Farrar, Straus & Giroux has acquired world rights for Wish, a novel by Barbara O'Connor. Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has made the same wish since fourth grade, hoping that someday it will come true. When her irresponsible parents cause her to be sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains to live with family members she doesn't know, she needs that wish to come true more than ever. Publication is planned for fall 2016; Barbara Markowitz of Barbara Markowitz Literary Agency did the deal.
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I'm posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/inkyelbows/comics-for-writers-inkygirl-com)
Fact or Fiction? Where were you the last time you saw a shooting star and what did you wish for?
I kick my feet in the air and they land solid on my board. My right hand skims the water as I drop into the tube. Sea spray mists my face, salty and sweet. I think about all the surfers who have ever ridden this water. All the boats that ever sailed it too. I think about the ocean and the timelessness of it. That the sound of the surf, sea pounding sand, must be the oldest sound on Earth.
I love knowing the sea, something ancient, so intimately. Being right about a wave. Taking it. Touching the water as I carve, leaving a bit of me behind.
I glide into the soup. Hop off, grab my board and walk along the water’s edge. My feet sink into the wet sand. Whistles greet me on my stroll down the beach. Not knowing why, I smile and hunt for Sean in the waves. Feet slapping wet sand behind me makes my heart race and I turn around.
“Had to be the sweetest wave ever! You rode it like a pro,” Sean says, giving me a sideways hug. He takes the towel off his head.
“Let’s celebrate, Ash. Where to?” Sean unzips his wetsuit to just below his belly button and has a Tommy-Burger look in his eye. He frees his arms of neoprene, shakes his blonde hair. It freezes in the-I’ve-just-been-surfing-and-its-my-life look. He towels off his guns first, works his way to his six-pack, wraps the towel around his waist and slips out of his wet suit.
He’s hot, but best friends aren’t supposed to notice that. I absolutely love watching Sean dry off almost as much as much as watching him pull on his butt-sculpting jeans.
I look to the sea. The sunset casts an orange-purple glow to the sand and the beach sparkles in spots. “This’ll do.” The waves blown out now, everyone’s on shore.
The towel drapes over Sean’s head now. He peeks out from under it and says, “But we don’t have anything to celebrate with.”
“We have each other.” That came out wrong. Or, did it. He’s so smoking hot backlit by the setting sun.
Sean takes the towel off his head. He holds my hand. “Let’s go find a spot on the beach.”
A queasy kind of sickly feeling comes over me on our walk down the beach.
We sit in the sand for a long time without saying a word. Awkward. How is it people stay friends after they’ve done it? Never happened to me before Sean. Sand grinds between Sean’s hand and my thigh. “Come on Ash, for old times sake,” he whispers.
Sean leans toward me, pressing his body against mine. I lay down in the sand. It grinds into my hair when he kisses me, easy, slowly. I want to do it. Remember this time. Like a do-over. But I don’t want to be that girl any more. He plunges his tongue into my mouth. We kiss like old lovers. Perfect and sweet.
I wonder if I’ll ever know who I am after being who everyone else wants me to be. Do I even know how to be me?
A shooting star fades before falling into the Pacific. My alien Dear Abby says yes. I do. She believes in me. The stars save me again, from another mistake.
Thanks for the great review Fairrosa! I'm glad you enjoyed the book so much.
sorry, forgot to sign that last comment. it was me, Jeremy Tankard.