A Novel Idea

“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.  Know what I’m saying?  Move past the fear.”                                  LL Cool J This morning, I played the game where an entire life [...]

At a party on Saturday, I told a friend — a smart woman and a good writer — that I’m ready to start sending queries to agents.  She reminded me that after she finished her first manuscript,  she ended up querying one hundred agents and editors.  This was a few years back, when paper submissions [...]

“First comes the sweat.  Then comes the beauty – if you’re very lucky and have said your prayers.”   George Balanchine I am ready for a partnership with the perfect agent, and, given that agent’s savvy and enthusiasm, a partnership with the perfect editor. And then comes beauty… in the form of my book.  And [...]

As of fifty minutes ago, it’s International Angel Day. I indulged in a Mocha Moo Latte at DQ around 5 p.m. yesterday and, wide awake now, I’m paying for the lapse in good sense, which is just as well since I have some angels to thank. A whole lot of them. These are angels that [...]

The other day, after almost a week of inactivity online,  I issued this status report on Facebook:  Tunie Munson-Benson is preoccupied with trying on her space suit for an imminent launch into the blogosphere… it’s always something. Among the good wishes that followed, a friend and film buff quoted the director in “42nd Street”:  “You’re [...]

Another “marker.”  Typed the last word and period on the preceding entry about b-girling and went directly to my email to find a message waiting from a fabulous b-girl named Maria.  She’s a busy lady and a luminary in the breaking community, so I wasn’t sure if or when she’d respond to my request that [...]

In the draft (and, I hope, in the book), B-girl Phoenix shows up one day in a tee shirt that reads B-GIRL 4-EVER.  Mona teases the breakdance instructor about becoming too old to do the moves: “I mean, how are you going to be doing flips and upside down freezes?” Phoenix is quick to explain [...]