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Advice from Sara Carr
About Me
- Val Hobbs
- Is a writer someone who does not write every day? Or even every week? (GASP) Then I am not a writer. A "spurt writer", I call myself. I write when the mood strikes or an idea keeps biting my ankle and won't let go, or sometimes when I'm just plain ashamed of myself for being so lazy. Despite all this I've somehow managed to write a dozen MG and YA novels (thirteen counting my adult novel, Call It A Gift.) Spurt writers can blitz when they want to, or need to--meeting a deadline for revision, for example. I love writing. I'm never more alive than when I'm caught up in a character's life, going places I haven't been or didn't know I was going. I've just finished The Last Best Days Of Summer which will debut in the Spring of 2010, another Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux book. Frances has been my editor since 1998 and I hope she always will be. She's simply amazing.
Followers
MY BOOKS
- Call It A Gift
- Maggie And Oliver (Fall 2011)
- The Last Best Days Of Summer
- Anything But Ordinary
- Sheep
- Defiance
- Sonny's War
- Tender
- Charlie's Run
- Stefan's Story
- Carolina Crow Girl
- Get It While It's Hot. Or Not.
- How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back
blogs I'm following
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I've moved. Again.2 weeks ago
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Some Updates!4 weeks ago
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Writing updates #82 months ago
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Six Interviews on a Friday1 year ago
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Back in the saddle again...1 year ago
Favorite Author Links
- Joy Allen
- Elizabeth Winthrop
- Bill Crider
- Anne Broyles
- Alvina Ling
- Wendy Lichtman
- Tanya Stone
- Sheila Bailey
- Sharon Vargo
- Sarah Darer Littman
- Sarah Dillard
- Ruth McNally Barshaw
- Rebecca Thornburgh
- Phillis Gershator
- Peni Griffin
- Philomena O'Neill
- Nancy Bo Flood
- Mary dePalma
- Martha Skrypuch
- Louise Hawes
- Laya Steinberg
- Lisa Harkrader
- Lee Wardlaw
- Karen Romano Young
- Kim Norman
- Katie Davis
- Jane Naliboff
- Janie Bynum
- Jennifer J. Stewart
- Joy Allen
- Hope Vestergaard
- Erin Eitter Kono
- Elizabeth O. Dulemba
- Elizabeth Raum
- Elizabeth Winthrop
- Debby Dahl Edwardson
- Diane Greenseid
- Carmen Bernier Grand
- Christine Taylor Butler
- Bill Crider
- Betsy James
- Barbara Garrison
- Anne Ylvisaker
- Anne Broyles
- Alvina Ling
- Ashley Formento
- April Pulley Sayre
- Alison James
- April Halprin Wayland
- Amy Timberlake
4 comments:
How bizarre!
I'd actually never thought about it. Interesting...
You soon will!
I've never heard of this. Time to observe...
I am in that agonizing place where, having finished a novel, I'm thinking SO WHAT? I'm not being modest here. I'm really thinking at this low point that my hero did not NEED to tell his story! Those of you who know me for my WHO NEEDS TO TELL THIS STORY AND WHY DOES HE/SHE NEED TO TELL IT know that I am "hoist on my (own) petard" as Shakespeare would (sort of) say. And he would also (probably) say that I've got some nice characters but where the hell are the swords? the tricks and traps? the murderous rages? What's to keep my audience from leaving during intermission? Or before?
I've been here before. What have I learned? Anything?
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