I started the fantasy book(s) I'm working on now a long time ago, while on maternity leave with my eldest son...and in a rage over the popularity of the Twilight series. In the Writers and Company interview in my mind, I point out that I started the books holding my baby in the middle of the night, … Continue reading Worldbuilding by neglect
Writing life
Voice Lessons
I've been writing fiction quite a bit lately, thanks in no small part to a small but mighty writer's group a few of my friends from high school and I formed at the start of the year. We all wanted to be writers when we grew up, and lo, here we are doing it. My … Continue reading Voice Lessons
End of the peace process
Last year I entered a writing contest. It was a flash fiction competition. The deal for the first round was you were assigned a genre and a few things to include in your story, and then two weeks later you had to submit your piece. Since I have been ruining my chance at a literary … Continue reading End of the peace process
Moby Dick in Manhattan
Back just before my husband and I bought our first house, I was ramping up for a career writing fiction. But then I read a story in the New Yorker about this really talented writer who was living in poverty despite critical praise for his books, because they weren't really selling. In my mid-20s, the whole thing … Continue reading Moby Dick in Manhattan
Jennifer Gruden 