Nancy Jooyoun Kim
This Year I Rewrote My Novel.
I had a blast with you. Let’s see. There was: The French marine biologist who showed me his conch. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in the Grotte of the Monk Seal. Famous Author Sheep who had the courage and talent…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XXV, Give Me Another Chance.
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, “Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XXIV, “To Hell with You!”
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.” (Saul Bellow, NY Times) I’m one of those…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XXIII, Your Wounds and the Wounds of Your Ancestors.
In Seattle, we are both jokingly and non-jokingly in something we call SNOWPACOLYPSE 2010. This means that it’s cold and flakey outside. Because we are hilly, cars slip and slide and people regret wearing their Frye boots. If you go…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XXII, “You Will Be Successful!”
That’s what my psychic says. Seriously, she is a firm supporter of my book and, for that reason, BTW, I am a firm believer in her. I will keep her anonymous but she has the same name as a semi-precious…
