Michelle Dearmin Preston

Category: writing

  • Objects In The Mirror May Be Different Than They Appear

         Okay, the title of this post was suggested to me by the stupid accident I had the other day. I managed to injure my head and neck in the public swimming pool. I was trying to demonstrate how to do an underwater summersault, and the bottom of the pool turned out to be closer…

  • Revising My Fast Draft

    My initial reaction upon reading my rough draft: absolute terror.

  • I Don’t Dance

    I wonder sometimes what other writers do when they send out a manuscript. Do they celebrate? If any other writers read this, I would love to hear what you do.

  • Sweating the Small Stuff

    Every year I tell this to freshmen students, encouraging them to find a peer or relative to read their papers before turning them in. So why do I think I am the exception to this rule?

  • NaNoWriMo: What I learned

         It’s a bit early for New Year’s resolutions, but I have resolved to update this blog more often. Of course, the bar is really low here since I have only been updating it once a month—so if I manage one more post a month, I’ve doubled my output. However, the goal is to update…

  • NaNoWriMo

         I looked at my blog and realized I haven’t posted in a month. October was a crazy month full of sickness and school meetings. November promises to be even crazier as I have signed up for NaNoWriMo–which for the  nitiated stands for National Novel Writing Month. Yes, I have signed up to write a 50,000 word…

  • Lost in Cyberspace

                    I spent most of yesterday writing a blog entry about, well, writing. I worked very hard on it, and I thought I saved it, but when I opened the file this afternoon to finish the entry, it was gone. Welcome to my nightmare. I love the computer. I can edit. I can revise. I…