I Won! It Won’t Happen Again

The Washington Nationals — and I — had a good week last week. We both won in sports events that were “mind-bending, odds-shattering, pundit-shaming and impossibly thrilling.”

So, okay, the quote above comes from The Washington Post and describes the Nationals’ triumph over the Houston Astros in the World Series final last Wednesday. But it could just as easily describe my own win in the third match of a new singles tennis season.

As faithful readers of this blog may have read a couple of weeks ago, I decided to prove I’m totally insane by signing up (again) for a singles tennis tournament. (Last season, I lost every match. This season, I lost my first two matches.)

This time, I signed up because I’m treading water while waiting for my literary agent to spring my revised, edited, re-revised, and re-titled novel on publishers all over North America. Continue reading “I Won! It Won’t Happen Again”

Shonda Rhimes is McBrilliant in Her Masterclass on TV Writing

Shonda Rhimes, Creator of Grey’s Anatomy & Scandal

For anyone who doesn’t get the “McBrilliant” reference in today’s blog title, you obviously have never watched Grey’s Anatomy. That’s the ABC-TV medical drama    — created by Shonda Rhimes — in which Derek, the best-looking neurosurgeon in the show is nick-named McDreamy and Mark, the equally hot-looking plastic surgeon is known as McSteamy. Continue reading “Shonda Rhimes is McBrilliant in Her Masterclass on TV Writing”