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The Open Vein

Carolyn See and the Prisoner of the Book Revision

By KJ / Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Big shout out to Carolyn See, who I have never met (I’d like to!) but who I owe, big time. See, ten days ago today, (that would be a week ago Wednesday) I cleared my decks for what I’d planned to be one big week of book revision. It wasn’t meant to get what I hope will be my next book into any kind of final form, but just to get it into a nice cohesive shape for my agent, […]

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Stepping in for Lisa Belkin at the New York Times’ Motherlode Blog: Because I’m Good Enough, I’m Cool Enough, and Gosh-Darnit, People Like Me!

By KJ / Saturday, October 8, 2011

Should I play it cool and tell you that of course I’ve been asked to take the first week in what will probably be a rotation of writers filling in for Lisa Belkin at the New York Times‘ Motherlode blog? Should I say that after all, I do already cover parenting, culture and policy issues for Slate‘s XXFactor blog—already a position to be proud of, with a rightly respected publication? Should I tell you that the Times won’t find anyone […]

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If

By KJ / Wednesday, February 15, 2006

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The End! The Beginning! The End!

By KJ / Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Check out this link for Amazon and this one for B & N to see a preview of Reading to Babies, Toddlers and Twos. I feel great and Susan does too–now on to promoting it, selling it and enjoying it! Guess I’ll need to put up an official link here, too. We’re even planning a blog book tour–I’ll be emailing people to see if they want to participate in a week or two. Plus: One first draft novel, finished, less […]

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The End! The Beginning! The End!

By KJ / Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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All Manuscripts MUST…

By KJ / Tuesday, January 10, 2006

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Just a Temporary Truce

By KJ / Friday, December 30, 2005

I refuse to wave the white flag, but there is now no way I can meet that Dec. 31st deadline. All my babysitting for the end of the week has fallen through, so unless I skip the New Year’s Eve party we’re supposed to attend in favor of drafting, there’s no way for me to get anything done. Even today, I kept thinking–what about tonight? And tomorrow night? But it’s time to be realistic. We came home from the holidays […]

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Uh-Oh, the End Approaches

By KJ / Monday, December 26, 2005

The end of the year, and I am not finished with my draft. The holidays gained momentum and then overtook. But I still maintain hope. 5 days remain. 5 days in which to draft…well, to be honest, I haven’t counted, and I don’t think I will. But I’m off, now, to see if I can’t manage maybe just one scene before bed. Just one, just one, just one small scene. Even half a scene is far better than none.

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Copping Out, or Coping?

By KJ / Sunday, December 11, 2005

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Chug Chug Chugging along

By KJ / Thursday, December 8, 2005

I’m on target to finish the draft. I am really going to do it this time. It’s really, really going to happen. Not just if I tell you ten times it might be true, but really. Oh, and there’s the little matter of a professional, paying assignment to get done this week and next, too, but I feel good. I can do it. I can pull this off. Work is heating up for R., which makes my duties on the […]

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No 50,000 Words for Me!

By KJ / Friday, December 2, 2005

I won’t be posting a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) finisher medal here. In the end, I wrote more like 8,000 words, although I did manage a fair amount of work this past month–just not on the novel. I sent article queries, I polished and sent out an essay, I traveled…well, excuses. Good ones, but excuses. But this is no month for querying or sending out essays, and so this is it, the final draft push. It can be short, […]

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In which I clear up the Mork from Ork reference

By KJ / Thursday, November 10, 2005

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Nano, Nano November

By KJ / Friday, November 4, 2005

My plans for November: Thanksgiving, of course. One big party, many many guests, with enough food to constitute dinner–that’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. One short trip to Bermuda. (Lucky one night boondoggle.) Clean entire house preparatory to huge party, as in–that cabinet has got to go! I ordered new shelves and gee, if I’m going to clear the kitchen counters I might as well organize the spice cabinet, and once I do that I have to move some stuff to […]

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I Am a Genuine, Honest-to-Gosh Writer

By KJ / Tuesday, October 11, 2005

I have finally grown comfortable enough with the possibility of rejection and with the growing body of words from my tap-tapping little fingers to confide that i am writing a novel. In fact, recent word count has me at 41,481 words. Many of them are deeply crappy words, certainly, but still words. Absolutely words, all mine. I suppose I’m partly ok with sharing this because a) I am not going to tell you what it is about, I don’t do […]

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The Writing Front

By KJ / Wednesday, October 5, 2005

A couple of months ago I sent out an essay–actually at an editor’s request, a first for me. I proposed an article on how former professionals, now stay-at-home moms, rarely just stay home–they usually do something to stay sane, too. She thought it sounded more like an essay than an article. Writing essays to order is always tough, and this one fought hard. I finally sent it out just because I coudn’t get it any farther and it seemed pretty […]

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The Terrible Twisty Tentacles of Depression and Schadenfreude

By KJ / Tuesday, April 19, 2005

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All in My Head

By KJ / Wednesday, March 16, 2005

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A Little Late For the Party

By KJ / Sunday, January 30, 2005

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