writing

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok is a book I could read over and over and over again. There are so many levels. I can read it as a Christian in regards to living out my faith. I can read it as an artist in regards to working out my art and faith.

I've decided that any updates I find regarding art, writing, contests, etc., I'll keep up with on my Intersection blog so as not to crowd things around here (you wouldn't believe how cranky the owner here gets about crowding--she starts charging these extra squatting fees).

You can find that blog here. 

She read it with Grover's voice. Then, after straining her vocal chords, my mom usually lost her voice for a period afterward. (In fact, I'm not sure if my sister and I begged her to read the book because we loved the book or because we loved the after effects. Often, when she came to the end, we'd plead Read it again! Read it again! I see now how cruel we were.)

The book was about Grover not wanting to reach the end of the book because there was a monster at the end of the book! Oh, please, please, please don't turn the page, he'd say.

We'd turn it anyway.

Because I leave for Jersey tomorrow (yay!) and probably won't be able to do much with my blog until I get settled in Ocean City on Saturday, I thought I'd leave you with two posts on writing to check out:

Glimmer Train has a great article by Frederick Reiken, Separating Author, Narrator and Character, which is especially helpful for writing unreliable narrators, something I'm working on now.

Oh, and the author has a book called  The Lost Legends of New Jersey. You can bet I'll be checking that one out!

I started a new book last week! Writing the first few pages helped deteriorate the fear crippling me. I stalled and stalled knowing that what comes out on the page will never be what's in my head. It'll never be good enough.

I have to write anyway.

With that in mind, here's a peek into my life:

HarperCollins Gets into Social Networking

Millions of Readers Are Not Wrong 

What do you guys think? 

Because I know and love so many of you. This blog post at Guardian is in your world. Or worlds. Or space station.

God v. Satan in Deep Space

Today's catch words: authentic, gritty, relevant, edgy, raw, quirky. If these words are not in a review of your book or film, you know your work is no good. If these words are not in a description about your ministry, turn your collar in.

With that in mind, and in keeping with why my house is trendy, I give you my kitchen:

In light of fiction reading, writing, and 'rythmatic (okay, so not so much the 'rythmatic)... 

For those of us addicted to writing in the first person, I found the blog post challenging:

The Dangers of First-Person Narrative.

Good stuff to keep in mind.