Last week I attended a Learning & the Brain conference and a Neuro-education summit, and I’m still processing all I heard. Two things stood out: We’re not so much multitaskers — Try this out loud: 1. As fast as you can, say out loud the numbers 1 through 10. 2. As fast as you can, [...]
So, I did the first readthrough on my NaNoWriMo novel, The Spanish Patriot, this weekend. I hadn’t looked at it since Nov. 30 — actually, I never had looked at it, just kept typing typing typing. When I started reading it Saturday, it was as if I’d written it years ago–no emotional attachment. Waiting works! [...]
Remember those photos from Aspen? Here’s a post for the Dana Foundation blog on what I was doing there, work-wise: How does school work, brain-wise? Do children teach themselves or is it something about the instruction that gets their brains firing and wiring faster? Last fall, a few hundred neuroscientists, teachers, and curriculum-makers met for [...]
This year, I will: • write every day • spend 2 hours or more every week marketing my work • travel to Spain for research • finish another print-worthy novel • have something I wrote for sale (or bought) by November • volunteer to judge or coordinate 3 writing contests • continue to volunteer as [...]
This past year, I: • spent more than 300 hours writing (not web-surfing or sitting, but writing) • spent more than 120 hours doing volunteer work • finished 1 print-worthy book (!) • submitted my work to agents and editors, and got good critiques and notes • wrote 1 good short story and started 2 [...]
This past Saturday I got to tour the Library of Congress with my some of my buddies from Washington Romance Writers. A WRW member, Virginia Virtucci, worked at LoC for 38 years and now volunteers as a docent, and she took us down hallways, up stairs and all around, describing just a few of the [...]
Found this video over at videosift.com: It really fires up around the :25 mark, but watching the whole thing reminds me how much we move around when we are “sleeping quietly.” The video credit on videosift is “by Perky,” on YouTube it’s “derrobsi.” Here’s where I found it: http://videosift.com/video/Time-lapse-man-sleeping-with-cat I wandered across it because I [...]
National Novel Writing Month starts Monday. In the next 30 days, I’m going to write at least 50,000 words on a new story that I have only the vaguest idea of at the moment. I think it will be contemporary, and I’m going to try to make it sassy if not snarky; I’ve been finding [...]
A wreath in remembrance of Peterloo, 16 Aug 1819, laid on 16 Aug 2010 beneath the commemorative plaque in Manchester. I saw this while on the Peterloo tour given by Ed Glinert through New Manchester Walks. Heard a lot of good details, some of which matched what I’d read and learned, some that was new [...]
So yeah, it’s taking longer than I thought, but this story is even better than I thought, so there. I’ll be running silent, running deep until vacation in a couple weeks. I really want to be done with this pass and take a complete break, but as the parents say, “we’ll see.” On scene 50 [...]
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