Laura Whitcomb's Blog, page 17

What I did with my summer vacation, part one

 

Sorry I missed posting a blog this last week. I promise to be more attentive from now on.

I spent three days flitting about the halls of the Sheraton Hotel near the Portland Airport feeding off the high of 700 other writers. Every August the Willamette Writers (of which my sis, Cynthia, is the prez) throw a fabulous writing conference. I love sitting at breakfast (we have a huge banquet room with tables that seat about eight each) sipping coffee and deciding which workshops to try. There were ab

Open-Mike Dream

I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I went to an open-mike event where people could come and read out loud from their journals or from poems and other pieces they'd written. But this event was in a magical venue. In this "club" while you were at this supernatural microphone, your true inner-self would be revealed. An old woman might appear as a young girl as she read her diary or a little boy might appear as a knight as he read his adventure story.

 

One teenage boy read a contemplative poem he'

Diving out of the nest and learning to twitter

My twitter name is Lwhitcomb23.

Thank you to Karen and Meradeth for pointing out that I forgot to mention it. (By the way, Meradeth, my mouse slipped and I accidentally spammed your comment. Can't figure out how to get it back. Please comment again whenever you'd like and I'll be more careful, I promise.)  

Soon there will be facebook and twitter links on my website provided by Brian Batson, my fabulous web stylist. (If you need a web guy, I can get you in touch with him!)

Tweet to you soon!

Huzzah to the fans!

Huzzah (Renaissance Faire "speak" for Hurray) to everyone who has left comments or answers to my questions on my website (Amelianna, Becca, Cynthia, Kayla, M.E., Melissa, Rebecca, Susie, and Zac .) I love hearing from you all. And huzzah to the blog reply folks (Karen, Passionandfruit, Robin, Tashi, and Wendy.) And  a big huzzah to the creators of the SLANT mini-films which can be viewed  from the "Enthusiasm" page of my website. Links to those film-lets were sent to my literary agent, my Hought

About Maximus (who is not convinced that he is a dog)

When I sold my first novel, I bought things like a CD player for my car, a new pair of sneakers, and a new printer. When I sold my first movie option I bought something I'd been wanting even more.  Maximus is now a four-year-old, but when I got him he was an eight week old, two and a half pound, Min Pin (miniature pinscher) puppy. The girls at the pet shop called him the Escape Artist because he could get out of any cage. They ended up putting a pad lock on his kennel door.

the Escape Artist hims

A work in progress

Well, it's not even mid-July and I'm almost a quarter of the way into writing the first draft of UNDER THE LIGHT, the twin to A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT. I love playing in Jenny's head, experiencing where she went when she was out of her body, and seeing Billy through her eyes.

I dreamed, the other night, that Filmcolony (the producers who currently hold the option) were making the movie of SLANT. It was fascinating to see the scenes in which Helen shadowed her first hosts, the one where Helen and

The Mystery of the Hay Shower

Yesterday hay fell from the sky. I was going out to let my Min Pin, Maximus, have a widdle. Out of a clear blue sky, strands of hay appeared and drifted down onto our driveway and lawn. Some strands as long as my arm with dry tufts on the ends like the tails of strange straw creatures. Some clumps, looking like flying birds' nests, were as big as cowboy hats. This went on for several minutes. I could look into the cloudless blue and watch the blades appear from so far up they seemed to materiali

My first blog post

Me and my dog

This is my very first blog entry. I meant to start one months ago, but now I have news worthy of a premiere. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt just bought the sequel to my first novel, A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT. Well, it's kind of a sequel and kind of a prequel, so, a sprequel? It will be called UNDER THE LIGHT and will be about Jenny and Billy, why they left their bodies, where their spirits went during the story of Helen and James, what it was like coming back into their bodies and not rem