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When You’re Not Writing…
…what do you write about? I started this journal because I wanted to keep myself honest about the writing. And for a while there, when I was writing every day, I was journaling every day with metrics...
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Some authors can afford to work on writing full-time, and some have day jobs. It’s just the nature of the business. There are so many factors in play (health insurance is a big one) that sometimes...
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Finding Your Inner Squee
Someone asked how I come up with the elements/themes of a book that bring out my inner geek. Long story. So, once upon a time there was this valkyrie book. This author absolutely loved this book, but...
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Sticking with the tried and true.
I really, really want to write the story in my head. It’s dark. Gritty. Urban. Unique. Possibly post-apocalyptic. With fantasy elements. It involves a harsh world for my heroine and a hero that is part...
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Plotting. You either take it in the front, or in the rear.
So, plotting. Some people ‘pants’ their way through a novel, without an outline except what’s running through their heads. Some people religiously outline before starting a book. There’s really no...
View ArticleOvershooting the Box
I’m making an effort to blog a bit more, you guys! But I keep running out of stuff to talk about. It’s weird, because I used to love to yammer about stuff I’m working on, but now that things are...
View ArticleI can make you love me, little story…
For me, writing starts with a scene. I’ll see something in my mind so clearly that I won’t be able to get past it unless I write it down. And from there, the story spirals outward. Somewhere in the...
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