The popular genre broke through another glass ceiling recently in Washington. Source: Stop dissing romance novels already - The Washington Post
Month: August 2017
This Week’s Writing Plan for RN2
What this really means is my writing plan for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday since Monday and today are long on-campus days that all about meetings, teaching, and office hours. Waah. The only writing I can do today is this kind of reflection and list-making -- which nevertheless serves a purpose. Wednesday Re-read Chapter 1 draft … Continue reading This Week’s Writing Plan for RN2
Scheduling Writing Dates
As I've already mentioned, I'm someone who benefits from calendaring my time, particularly as I juggle not only my university obligations (teaching, scholarship, service, and administration) but academic writing with romance writing. (I've committed to the latter, but some scholarly writing is still on my docket.) If I don't schedule carefully and commit, it (whatever … Continue reading Scheduling Writing Dates
You Can’t Win If You Don’t Play
This afternoon I shifted writing gears back to academic matters long enough to write a small grant application for Venice-based research that I can do while I'm there for the October conference. That research relates to a scholarly article I'll be writing come Spring 2018 on David Lean's 1955 film Summertime, shot in Venice; if … Continue reading You Can’t Win If You Don’t Play
Writing and Wanderlust
One of the things I like about writing contemporary big-city romances is that they allow me to enjoy some of the travel I've done (and plan to do) from a couple of perspectives. First, there's the pleasure of exploring new places and well-known cities in and of themselves. I love landscapes and natural environments, but … Continue reading Writing and Wanderlust
Wordsmith@Work 