I’ve gone through all my editors’ notes and made all the changes–and have started one more run through to make sure I like what I did. I will surface soon–though I may need to do nothing but twiddle my thumbs for a couple of days. I’ve learned a lot and wonder if it will make […]
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: looking at nothing and finding infinity
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Write like a man
another consideration of the dilemma of the female writer http://ow.ly/5kDSa
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: when to buy organic?
handy guide to reduce our kids’ intake of pesticides along with their fruits & vegggies at EWG http://ow.ly/5iy96 Filed under: Miscellany
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Poem of the week: The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton | Books | guardian.co.uk
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Busy Bee
I haven’t forgotten my blog–I’ve been busy with my draft, school concert, talking to teachers, a mysterious blistery rash on one kid’s ankle (poison ivy?) and so on. I was up at 5:00 am, hot and sleepless, so I’m extremely grateful for the cool breeze now blowing. I’ll catch up on my blog reading tomorrow, […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Page 262
I am pushing to get as far as I can today because tomorrow, with temp going up to 34C (that’s 93F) tomorrow, I have no expectations of getting anything done other than lying in front of a fan. I’ve been learning to be more careful and punctilious in getting characters from point A to point […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: how men and women make decisions under stress
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press. via thesituationist.wordpress.com Brain imaging showed that men’s brains were activated in reward/addiction areas while women’s […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: how men and women make decisions under stress
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press. via thesituationist.wordpress.com Brain imaging showed that men’s brains were activated in reward/addiction areas while women’s […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Õhtuvalguses / Evening light – Landscape & Rural Photos – Vaido’s Photoblog
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The light here and colour is so vivid, it makes me think of something you can taste.
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: “SlutWalks and the future of feminism”
The word “slut” got under my skin. Then I read it. Go girls go! http://ow.ly/5ankE
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: emily dickinson is helen oyeyemi’s hero–who’s yours?
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. via guardian.co.uk My literary hero is George Eliot because she was a late bloomer, because she […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: yarn bombing, graffitti with sweaters
I like the new pink and purple skin of the bull NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/59Hi9
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Music of Aussie rockers AC/DC irresistable to sharks
“If You Want Blood” a favourite. Seriously. http://ow.ly/59yG4
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Page 125
That’s where I’m at today. It’s hard to take a break in the afternoon to walk, though it’s good to get out of the house. This novel has always had a lot of energy, even through all the years, but now there is so much momentum it’s hard to pull away. I made falaffel sandwiches […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: why running barefoot is better than wearing shoes
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Draft 10-A
This is it folks. The last draft. I got my editor’s notes–we had a wonderful meeting. I started yesterday.
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: poem of the week: The Cuckoo Song
The Cuckoo Song Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu. Sumer is i-cumen in – Lhude sing, cuccu!Groweth sed and bloweth med And springth the wude nu. Sing, cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu,Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth – Murie […]