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I don’t know everything. Let’s just start from there. None of us knows everything. Everyone comes at this writing pursuit with different backgrounds and skills. Some of us can tell a great story — have readers at the edge of their seats and keep them there — but we need a good editor for our […]
In my last post I talked about planning, and a little about what works for me. Along with a clear plan, that includes a structured schedule for writing/editing/publication, and goals for six months, one year out, and five years out, as a writer setting out on this journey, you must adapt to a spirit of […]
No matter what it is that inspires you, we can all take a creative boost from what we’re exposed to. In the Internet age, it follows that creative types are busting out of the woodwork in waves — we are exposed to so much more art, writing and so many more ideas than people had […]
I swear, I’m back to writing the book I’m supposed to be focused on! 🙂 A few weeks ago, I entered a stalling phase on Shield, the final Children of the Sidhe novella. It was all going so well, and then the fear got ahold of me. The FINAL book in a series. With all […]
It’s been quite a week for this fantasy writer. I released a novel last weekend, and then took a couple of days off from writing. But after a couple of days, I got really excited about my next big project — the one that moved into “primary writing project” stage when I hit publish and […]
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. We celebrated two birthdays (hubby & younger daughter) at the beginning of November, took a trip to the Oregon coast with a bunch of family for my father’s 60th — all happy stuff, but busy. And then the day after we got home my grandmother (Dad’s mom) passed […]
Um…hi. It’s been an interesting week. I scored virtually zero on the word count meter (I added just 900 new words of fiction this week — blah!), but I kicked butt in several other areas, so I’ll take it! I’ve been working on the blurb for Descent, the book I’ll publish in the next couple […]
I hope all of you other writers had a better start to this round than I did. But honestly, with how work has been and editing Brooke Jackson’s novel, I’m glad I put down at least a little word count this week. I chalked up 2,000 words since Monday, and about 1,000 words of plotting […]
It’s time for another fall with Round of Words in 80 Days, the writing challenge that knows you have a life. At the moment, that’s definitely true — I don’t seem to have time to think, much less write a decent post…so I’ll get right to it and leave the quips for later. 🙂 I […]
I’m glad I made the choice to reduce my word count goal to 2,000 words a week for the summer. Several weeks I’ve beaten that mark. While it is a cheap trick, somehow 4,000 words a week feel AMAZING when my goal is 2,000, and only so-so when my goal is 3,500. You know? So […]
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