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Back to Bed

I tried to get up this morning before work to write. When I was working on the first draft of my most recent freelance project, I was able to get up at 7, stow myself in the back corner of a local Starbucks, and type madly for about two hours before running down Varick StreetContinue reading “Back to Bed”

Posted byNova Ren SumaMay 30, 2006Posted inwriting

My Mind Is Elsewhere

I have reached chapter 7 of my revision. I should plow through. I should. But my mind is on other things. Floating up in there are all the foods I can't eat because I am on a (stupid) diet—how often can a person think of frosted cupcakes?—and then I think, Well, what can I eatContinue reading “My Mind Is Elsewhere”

Posted byNova Ren SumaMay 29, 2006Posted infantasies, freakouts, writing1 Comment on My Mind Is Elsewhere

View from My Desk Last Year

This was my desk a year ago, when I spent a month at the MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in New Hampshire and, I suspect, the most incredible colony in the entire country. My studio was much, much bigger than my apartment in Manhattan. There was a chandelier that couldn’t fit in this photo. SometimesContinue reading “View from My Desk Last Year”

Posted byNova Ren SumaMay 28, 2006December 31, 2006Posted infantasies, writing

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