Archive for July 24th, 2007

I can haz Doritos

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

I’m totally bummed. My husband took the tall kid to see HP5, while I’m left behind with the short kid. Six feet from me lies HP7. But since it was the tall kid’s birthday gift, he gets to read it first. He’s had the damn thing 24 hours now, and he’s only […]

But why is the voice gone?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Yesterday, I was listening to a workshop from last year’s Nationals, and one thing that stood out to me was JAK saying (and I paraphrase) that a writer’s voice is like an accent—you can’t hear your own. I think I more or less agree with that, but I think you can hear the lack […]