Notes on a Writing Life
Sandra GullandFor the timid and brave, the published and unpublished, honest in-the-weeds missives from the writing trenches.
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Awaiting edits
I have been without my Young Adult WIP — Princess of Hearts — for over two months. Of course my first response was celebratory. It’s always a huge deal to get a manuscript to the point where it is ready to step out into the world: tah dah!...
On Deadline
In the closing notes of last year (How quickly I closed that door!), I thought often the title of Grace Paley’s short story collection, Enormous changes at the last minute. Ruefully, for I was making enormous changes at the last minute to m...
My First Beta Reader Reports
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Yesterday, on a “why-not” whim, I fed the 17,477-word draft of my WIP to ProWritingAid.com, an AI manuscript evaluation website. Slightly befuddled (an entirely human emotion I doubt AI will ever master), I ended up asking for no...
Perplexity.ai: a Research Miracle
Heh. I used Perplexity.ai to find a free image for this post and this one took my fancy. Credit to JeanFrancoisFAGEOL
After my last post on having to make a deep dive into historical research to answer some specific questions I had about P...
Falling into the Bottomless Pit of Research: Again
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I thought my novel was ready to begin the final revision process. I’ve been writing and revising it for over five years. As readers of this blog (Hello there! I appreciate you! Thank you for hanging in through my...
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I write biographical historical fiction and explore the visual arts. Now six years into a YA novel inspired by young Elizabeth Tudor—the future Queen Elizabeth I. A remarkable life! I’m a widowed mother of two and grandmother to five wonderful girls.
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