I signed with an agent this week. It’s official. I can now say I am an agented writer. I am excited, but in a this-is-too-good-to-be-true sort of way. I have to admit, it feels a bit unreal. The agent is very enthusiastic and energetic and engaged, and I’m delighted about that. She read my manuscript [...]
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Is this really happening?
Posted in Writing, tagged agent, contract, manuscript, submission, writing on June 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Storms past and present
Posted in Moments, Writing, tagged Calcutta, memories, storm, writing on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A powerful storm ripped through Massachusetts tonight, bringing raging winds and ceaseless, sky-illuminating lightning as well as a short but torrential downpour. Watching it from the window of my home, I was vividly reminded of the sights, smells and sensations of summer monsoon storms in Calcutta and Bombay during my childhood. The cawing of the [...]
Writerly paralysis
Posted in Writing, tagged time, writer's block on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a perfect time to write. I am in the process of negotiating a contract with an agent, thereby feeling some sense of validation of my writing efforts. There is a slight lull in my freelance work after a few intense weeks for which I am still billing hours of overtime. Summer weather has arrived, [...]
Divergent thinking
Posted in Being the people, Dance/Arts, Parenting, Writing, tagged arts, creativity, divergent thinking, education, Ken Robinson on November 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A friend of mine posted on her Facebook page a link to a fascinating talk by Sir Ken Robinson about education and creativity. Fascinating, but, especially for a parent, worrisome, for it makes me feel that, with my daughters in regular, public schools, there is little hope of them retaining the creativity with which they [...]
Disappointment
Posted in Being the people, Dance/Arts, Parenting, Writing, tagged auditions, disappointment, kathak, revisions on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
K doesn’t like tags in clothing. (Who does?) They scratch her, and she always wants them taken out. (Why haven’t more clothing makers adopted the tagless system of printing the relevant information on the inside of the neckline?) A few days ago, we went clothing shopping, and she picked out a few items, including a [...]
Found Time
Posted in Parenting, Writing on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 4:48 pm on a Wednesday. I find myself with an unexpectedly quiet house. Baby is asleep, after 45 minutes of my efforts to coax her into slumber, aided by some Orajel for her gums which will soon, I’m assuming, sprout a tooth. Of course, now that I’ve written this, she’s likely to wake up. [...]
Revisions… seven years later
Posted in Writing, tagged Faint Promise of Rain, novel, Rajasthan, revisions on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I started a new folder on my hard drive today: FPR2010. (FPR stands for Faint Promise of Rain, the title of my novel.) It was a bit of a downer to do so, as I started working on the manuscript seven years ago, in 2003. It might even have been earlier; July 2003 was the [...]
Charlotte
Posted in Moments, Observations, Writing on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the inauguration of a garden at the Acton Memorial Library (in Massachusetts) in memory of my grandmother, Charlotte Sagoff. Two years ago, at her memorial, I read a piece I wrote on the theme of a garden; how lovely that my very last sentence should have come to [...]
And now for some complete silliness
Posted in Writing on September 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I like to rhyme. It’s in my genes. My grandfather was a poet, always ready with a witty couplet which made his children and grandchildren, and all those young and old who flocked to him, cringe and groan and ache with laughter all at once. To him my family traces the urge to compose a [...]
