Anne R. Allen's Blog... with Ruth Harris
Writing about writing. Mostly.
by Ruth Harris OK, admit it. You’re one of them. You’ve walked the walk of shame. You threw up your hands, flew the white flag of surrender, and gave up. That book, the one you started with such high hopes, is dead. It bit the dust mumble-mumble years (decades?) ago. Now it’s a ghost, a goblin, draped […]
Are old manuscripts gathering dust in your archives? by Ruth Harris. Every writer has (at least) one and probably more. They’re the old manuscripts we—most certainly including Anne and me—started but didn’t finish or did finish but somehow went off track. They’re our false starts, our duds and misfires, our first novels, our practice novels, […]
