Susan Adrian

I write YA and MG novels, because I can't help it. My day job is scientific editing.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Imagination...

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The Hat Trick post of the day! I just had to record this conversation I had with Child yesterday. Hubby heard it from the other room and was...
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A nod

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Oh...and I put this in the book yesterday. I couldn't help myself. It does fit with my audience. From The Weirdest Thing about Jenna: I ...
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Let the brain work

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The answer for how to get out of the last fix came to me in the shower this morning (and it builds on what I already had, yay!)--and I solve...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Out of the fire...into the ?

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Yes! I escaped the corner ! And put them immediately in a worse one. {cackles} No, I don't know how to get out of this fix yet either, b...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Painting yourself into a corner...and how to escape

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Have you ever created a situation--for your characters, of course--so sticky, so impossible to get out of, that you drop into reader mode an...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Lessons picked up from other writers

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I used to avoid reading for pleasure while I was writing, in the fear that (a) it would take too much time away from writing and (b) other a...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

There!

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Whew. That was not easy. But I'm happy with the new blue look. What do you think?
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

In the...

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Yes, I'm trying out pink. I was bored with green, and must change colors regularly. Don't know if I like it yet...tomorrow I may go ...

In praise of editors

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Gary Kamiya has written a fabulous piece in today's Salon called " Let us now praise editors ". Fellow editors, go get a day p...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

What I did for my weekend

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I did not go to a midnight Harry Potter party on Friday. Instead hubby, Child, and I went to an amazing dance performance in Helena. Artisan...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

The big reveal...um, sort of

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I've seen a couple of rants lately about critique partners & groups, and how to deal with or give criticism. I've even talked a...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Weird yesterday

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Yesterday I came down with some sort of random stomach illness, and had to bolt home at noon. (I'm perfectly fine now.) You'd think ...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007

A bonus day!

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I'm sitting here in Hastings, because it's 100-frigging degrees outside, and we don't have air conditioning. No one does here--w...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

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Oh, I forgot... Whadjya eat? Grilled chicken rubbed with ginger and garlic (and a teensy bit of light olive oil), packaged Asian salad with...

Kicking ass

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YES! A kick-ass 1150 words today, which _almost_ catches me up completely for missing Tuesday. I could've kept going if I hadn't had...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

A new experience

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This morning Child is here at work with me for a couple of hours, and then we'll take off for home. She's sitting right next to me c...
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Monday, July 09, 2007

Next

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Hokay. I finished the rewrite of the first half (yay) and wrote 500 new words today. One thing I discovered in the rewrite, though--I'm,...
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The just do it, stupid talk

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There have been a lot of inspirational posts in blogland lately. Alison Kent started a challenge called "Seventy Days of Sweat" ...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Slash!

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I'm {cough} down another 2000 words in wordcount. This is depressing because you know I want to keep that sidebar going up, making progr...
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A tag!

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Renee tagged me--it's been so long since I've blogged regularly that I've very nearly forgotten what a tag is--so look! A post! ...
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I'm a writer, represented by Kate Schafer Testerman of kt literary. My YA thriller TUNNEL VISION is coming out with Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press in Winter 2015! Film/TV rights represented by Jon Cassir of Creative Artists Agency.
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