Writer Tamago

You'd think after a day of travel, I'd be snoozing, but I'm really quite awake in my comfy room at the Hampton Inn. I present tomorrow at 2ish, just about the time I'd crash. Well, adrenaline's got me this far... Mind is full of all the images of clothes I've seen while shopping for my [...]

I'm writing from the airport terminal of the Eastern Iowa airport on my way to Chicago on my way to Cleveland. Even though I'm not ready for Demicon yet (too much traveling and traveling preparation made for a night of Dead Like Me gluttony), on the road all I can do is MAYBE shop for [...]

Well, I did get my submissions around for the week. They go out in the post tomorrow. This week, all snail mail. Marcia Amsterdam of Marcia Amsterdam Kelly Sonnack of Sandra Dijkstra Charlotte Sheedy of Sterling Lord Literistic Steve Mancino of JABberwocky (agent to the famous Jim Hines! Donald Maass of Donald Maass And two [...]

Alyssa Eisner Henkin of Trident rejects. *** FINISHED with the comparative English paper. What's next for writing? Wiscon materials. I have some packing to do for my business trip and another costuming event, and then I'm all about Wiscon. So, here's information about the reading members of the old writing group will be doing, where [...]

A new agent requested a partial and outline of Substance. So, that's off as of this morning. I hope to get to more submissions out this week. We'll see. Muchos to do in the next 3 days. *** The rough draft of my conference paper for Saturday is complete. I must pepper liberally with examples, [...]

Oh, come on! I've sent you lots of queries. The least you can do is send me rejections! I'm mad for your rejections! It makes me feel like this whole process is going forward! Of course, agents, if any of you want to send me a request for a partial or a full reading, or [...]

I received a rejection from Barbara Bova, which was expected. The sort of things she usually represents aren't the sort of book I sent, but I thought I should knock on that door. And I revised the World Englishes and English as Lingua Franca parts of my paper last night...with a migraine! No doubt there [...]

I read many writers' blogs every day. I enjoy them. They help me focus on all sorts of aspects of writing. Some answer questions. Some are more personal about the life of the author. Here at Writer Tamago, we keep it mostly about the writing. I have a whole 'nother journal that talks about other [...]

Why yes, I did weave a tapestry of academic words last night. 2,801 / 10,000(28.0%) Next up: a section discussing the pros and cons of English as Lingua Franca before I get to the JIKEI study and particular Communicative Language Teaching Methodologies. Catherine ps and a rejection by Michael Congdon of Don Congdon.

...for Substance Jesse Vogel of Scribe Kristopher O'Higgins of Scribe Albert Longden of Albert Longden Barbara Bova of Barbara Bova Michael Congdon of Don Congdon Good luck, boys! Catherine