Category Archives: Writing

Formatting Final – I did it!

By annekNovember 22, 2010Menopause in Manhattan, Self-publishing, WritingAdobe, Adobe creative suite, first novel, formatting, InDesign, novel, paragraph styles, writing

Pomegranate Month!

By annekNovember 3, 2010Creative Writing, Food, Israel, WritingGalilee, Kfar Kana, Pomegranate Month, pomegranates

Every year in November I’m reminded of how lucky I am to live in Israel. When did I ever get to see olives being pressed in Manhattan? When could I ever be part of a pomegranate festival on the Upper West Side? Albeit I miss Zabars, Fairway and most of all – Bloomingdales – but

Addiction Abort! Farewell FarmVille

By annekOctober 21, 20104 commentsCreative Writing, Current Events, Humor, Writingaddiction, additions, Farmville, obsessions, qutting farmville, sudoku, withdrawal

Ellipsis or Elliptical?

By annekAugust 21, 20101 commentCreative Writing, Menopause in Manhattan, Self-publishing, WritingApple Pages, editing, ellipsis, formatting a novel, formatting text, grammar in novel writing, Microsoft Word, Pages '09, text layout, using Pages to format a book, women writers, writing, writing a book

And its out the door!

By annekAugust 15, 20104 commentsCreative Writing, Writing

And it’s gone! One more edit transferred into the waiting arms of Karine – my editor du jour. Actually, she’s much more than my editor du jour – she’s been my editor for three (3!) years. Yikes! I thought I’d be onto my third novel by now! I’ve learned a lot from this editing process.

Keyboard Fashion

By annekAugust 1, 20103 commentsCreative Writing, Humor, Writingcreative writing, humor, keyboard fashion, leopard fashions, leopard skin covers, novel writing, writer's block, writer's diarhrea, writing, writing a book