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Spreadsheeting the Characters and Story of Anna Karenina
I’ve been called “a slightly crazy reader.” I guess it’s true. But isn’t it true of anyone who loves books?
Someone gave me that moniker after discovering my glossary for William Gibson’s novel Peripheral. If they’d known that one day I’d follow it up with what I’m about to share with you, they would certainly have left out the “slightly.”
I read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for the first time this past summer. I’d been looking forward to it for quite a while, partly because I was interested in u...
Spreadsheeting the Characters & Story of Anna Karenina
I’ve been called “a slightly crazy reader.” I guess it’s true. But isn’t it true of anyone who loves books?
Someone gave me that moniker after discovering my glossary for William Gibson’s novel Peripheral. If they’d known that one day I’d follow it up with what I’m about to share with you, they would certainly have left out the “slightly.”
I read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for the first time this past summer. I’d been looking forward to it for quite a while, partly because I was interested in u...
December 26, 2024
New Year’s Wishes & Writing Goals
This morning, I woke up to the thought that I had only 534 words to go to reach 90,000 words on the draft of my novel-in-progress. It was a glorious feeling. By noon, during my daily writing session at one of my favorite local library branches, I blew right past that number, and wrote more like 1,000, which is a good number for me.
When the book’s done, sometime next year, it’ll be the third in my Sing & Shout series of historical thrillers for young adults, following Back in the USSR and Strawb...
