I write during my lunch hour, so when I sit down to write, I’m also often sitting down to eat. At the same time, my inner critic is tucking into a hearty meal of all my hopes and dreams. That’s how it feels, anyway. Pasta for me, and a nice big helping of total evisceration of my self-confidence for my friend, here. You might think that having a book coming…
The other morning I was out walking my dog and saw my breath in the cool air. Later the same day, it was an unseemly eighty degrees. Chicago hasn’t decided what season it is yet, but I can tell you what time of the year it is for me: Word Count Nuclear Winter. Every year at about this time, my writing habit drops through the basement. That’s because twice a…
My biggest surprise during Surprise Week here at The Deb Ball was that I couldn’t think of anything to write. SURPRISE! Deb Amy has writer’s block! I usually think of a surprise as something wonderful and unexpected. I’ve received many lovely surprise gifts. Flowers, an iPad, a card or letter from a friend. Emails from friends I haven’t heard from in a long time are always welcome and special surprises. …
This is my Writer’s Block. I received it as a gift, when I was just starting out in TV. I was a Writers’ Assistant on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which meant my job was to sit in the room with all the Writers, type up their thoughts and ideas, input their changes into the scripts as they gang-rewrote them, then make sure everything was formatted properly so…
