Category Archives: Writing

“Loneliness is not much written about.”

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Meredith Ann Rutter

So said Stephen Fry (actor, writer, and more) in a June 24 excellent post on his suicide attempt last year. Intrigued by his statement that loneliness is not much written about, I did a quick run-through in my own mind … Continue reading →

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The Book Review Section That Stumped Me Too Much

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Every now and then–and it’s not difficult–I like to make other people feel smarter than me (or should that be, “than I” [do]? Too formal even for grammarians these days?). Anyway, I was happily reading along in the New York … Continue reading →

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My Submission to an Essay Contest – Results

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Meredith Ann Rutter

The mind is a wondrous place. My mind, for instance, thought I’d posted eleven days ago the outcome of my submission to the essay contest. Today I checked on that posting for a different reason and found it was still … Continue reading →

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My Submission to an Essay Contest – Update 1

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Meredith Ann Rutter

As an update to my February 11 posting, I’ve now had a grand total of six people read and react to the essay I submitted to the “Times They Are A-Changing” contest. Among my six readers, the results are extreme. … Continue reading →

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My Submission to an Essay Contest

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Meredith Ann Rutter

On January 10 I learned about an intriguing essay competition with a January 15 deadline. The call for entries had gone out in November, I think, but I just learned about it in January thanks to whatever Internet surfing I … Continue reading →

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RIP “Gertrude”

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I’ve been revisiting character names in my latest novel, the one I worked on in November. Until now I have called my work-in-progress (WIP) “Gertrude” after the person I anticipated would be the protagonist, and who I thought was born … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo 2012 Progress Report #3 – The Results

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

“Picasso produced hundreds of great paintings; Ralph Ellison wrote one great novel. Art is hard, but literature is murder.”—Joe Queenan, One for the Books So, on the heels of NaNoWriMo 2012, let’s talk about failure and self-forgiveness, shall we? The … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo 2012 Progress Report #2

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

One of my characters, an antagonist, surprised me the other day with a move I didn’t plan. How cool is that? Then I had to decide whether I could live with that move, and if so, what it would mean … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo 2012 Progress Report #1

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Slogging through a swamp of too many ideas, not enough focus. Will I find my way out? In my first two successful romps with National Novel Writing Month, I was a “pantster,” one who writes by the seat of their … Continue reading →

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Participating in NaNoWriMo 2012

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Meredith Ann Rutter

National Novel Writing Month starts today, and I’m in it to win it! I was a “winner” in 2009 and in 2010, but in 2011 the creative spark was doused by my revision efforts on the 2009 manuscript. In fact, … Continue reading →

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