by SMThornton | Aug 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The other day I was talking to my husband about the publishing process (a rare moment of adult conversation when the two-year-old dictator was at Grandma and Grandpa’s). I mentioned that after I get an agent and that wonderful human being finds a publishing...
by SMThornton | Aug 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Blood Red Pencil would be proud of me. Yesterday I killed one of my darlings, a beautiful scene set at the foot of the pyramids. “But you just went to the pyramids,” you say. “Why would you cut a scene like that?”It was a plot-killer with no...
by SMThornton | Aug 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am still editing.I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a chapter I wrote a couple months ago, flying by the seat of my pants, is actually really good. It adds some serious tension to the plot- always a good thing. All excited by that extra boon, I was then...
by SMThornton | Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Before I left for my trip I discovered via Janet Reid’s blog that the Alaska Writer’s Guild was hosting a conference later this month with agents and editors. Let me tell you, living in Alaska we don’t have a lot of opportunities for stuff like this....
by SMThornton | Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
I just finished reading Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea.”Blecch.Double blecch. Maybe this takes me down a few notches on some sort of literary totem pole, but I hated it. I would even go so far to say that I despised it. The only good thing I...
by SMThornton | Aug 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m back!The trip was truly fantastic and I picked up a lot of gritty fodder for the sensory details for Hatshepsut. I’m still kind of bummed that I didn’t get to go to Luxor, but just being in Egypt reminded me of so much of the little stuff- the...
