annmariegamble

Pardon Our Dust

I’m setting things up at my actual domain name, annmariegamble.com. One the one hand, the process has been incredibly straightforward, but on the other, there are more possibilities available, so more arranging that has to be done, choices to be made, tweaking to be fiddled with. I’ll be leaving files here at least until I’mContinue reading “Pardon Our Dust”

Villiers, How I Love Thee

I am revising, really I am, but I’m also taking a little writing break and doing some extra reading. I got more Georgette Heyer Regencies out of the library and broke down and bought one that came highly recommended. I’ve also succumbed to Eloisa James’s Desperate Duchesses. More accurately, to the Duke of Villiers, aContinue reading “Villiers, How I Love Thee”

The First Irish Draft Is Finished

It’s a shambling bramble patch of a draft, but the novel formerly known as “Irish Roots” has now been written through to the end. It’s about 100,000 words, prints out as 350 pages. I’ve been working on it since February 2008. I was boosted in my efforts by two workshops and a local gang ofContinue reading “The First Irish Draft Is Finished”

In Which Georgette Heyer and Remington Steele Are Juxtaposed

I stumbled across Remington Steele on Hulu and figured I’d take the opportunity to actually see the show. It’s a detective show that was on the air from 1982 to 1987. For a variety of reasons, my access to TV as a kid was spotty, and in spite of the crush-worthy Pierce Brosnan, I’d onlyContinue reading “In Which Georgette Heyer and Remington Steele Are Juxtaposed”

A Week of Prompts: Saturday

To round out our week, one last book: The Write Brain Workbook: 366 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing by Bonnie Neubauer

A Week of Prompts: Friday

Setting the Scene We start with “Where does the scene take place?” (and that’s the prompt for today). But we can add depth for the reader: time of day, sensory experiences, attitudes of the characters to this place and time, how it compares to other settings . . .

A Week of Prompts: Thursday

A book! An honest-to-gosh book! The Pocket Muse, Monica Wood Photos, essays about the writing life and getting it done, quotes, random thoughts, and prompts. This kind of thing could be a sappy soup, but I’ve found it to be a great testament to noticing: what you have available to you is enough, so doContinue reading “A Week of Prompts: Thursday”

A Week of Prompts: Wednesday

2010 Writer’s Challenge This is a blog put together by some grads of Emerson University to keep their writing going. The challenge is simple: “I will write every day.” They put up a blog post every day with anything from a few words to a writing exercise to get you moving.

A Week of Prompts: Tuesday

one word “simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following page. you have sixty seconds to write about it. as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place.”