I’ve come to that crazy point in the writing of my (first) novel where I’ve started talking to it. Me: I’ve given you five years of my life. I’ve found you a badass agent. I’ve even stopped looking for freelance work! What more DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Novel: 20,000 new words? And can you […]

I like to joke that my first novel is about an Indian woman who has a mental breakdown and recovers, my second novel (which I’m now writing) is about an Indian woman who has a mental breakdown, but we’re not sure if she recovers, but not to worry because my third novel (which I’ve outlined) […]

There’s a trend in self-help circles that’s been gaining momentum for many years. Instead of posting goals and resolutions, bloggers and writers around the world have been picking a focus area to define their year. This one word or phrase is meant to encapsulate what they’d like to get out of their year. I’ve participated […]

Like most of you, I am an ideas person. What this means, essentially, is that I have notebooks upon notebooks in my drawers and files upon files on my computer that are filled with ideas for books, characters, articles, essays, even queries. Some of them are just one-sentence ideas, some of them are thorough outlines […]