by Devi S. Laskar | Mar 31, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Writing is a solitary enterprise. Some of us leap out of bed in the early mornings, dash to our desks and write for two hours before breakfast. These are the same people who wrote their first novel at the ripe age of 19 and are living beautiful glamorous lives. Most...
by Devi S. Laskar | Mar 30, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Since I have had some success getting novel chapters published as short stories and have won a prize or two along the way, Elizabeth asked me to write something about my process for the Book Writing World. My most important tool in this process is Poets and Writers...
by Devi S. Laskar | Mar 30, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’ve been a journalist and a fiction-writer-in-training for many years now, and I don’t feel as though it’s getting any easier with the passage of time. I’ve written so much and I’ve met so many nonfiction deadlines for daily newspapers; and yet, every time I sit to...
by Devi S. Laskar | Mar 29, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Last night one of my children and I both got sick. He recovered much more quickly than I did, which meant that I was home, trying to relax and recover, with an energetic almost-five-year-old. I still managed to read through and edit about twenty pages of my...
by Devi S. Laskar | Mar 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
This is the second part of the plot blog I began yesterday. In the Book Writing World, we have been discussing plot time and again…and again! (It may sound like I’m complaining, but I’m not! I’m grateful, since it’s an important part of...
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