I hate them. Well, I hate writing them. Which is odd, given my choice of genre. The truth is that I’m terrified of repeating myself, and I have a lot of fight scenes. So much like my introductions and explanations, I spend a lot of time rereading my fight scenes and making sure that I’m […]
So yesterday, a few of my friends on my favorite critique site begged to read the first Jeff story. I hemmed and hawed, but I’ve been really digging the story, so I posted the first part, and made sure to note in the author’s comments section that it was a super rough, and I was […]
I’m pretty sure that I have ADD. I know, I know, self-diagnosis is THE most obnoxious thing ever, but my oldest has been professionally diagnosed with ADHD, and my parents often chuckle when I tell them stories about his day, and usually find a similar story about me. So I think I’m on safe ground […]
My break lasted a little longer than I thought. I apparently really needed to clear my head. Then last night I opened up Scrivener to at least TRY and get some words out. I ended up getting back into the groove around 12:30. With a little bit of luck, I may finish this rough tonight. […]
Last night, I was giggling over how adorably sarcastic one of my new characters is, when I suddenly just couldn’t look at Scrivener for one more moment. I’m enjoying the story and I like my characters. In fact, a new favorite should be back in a few hundred words. But I can’t do it right now. […]
That I usually travel. Though to my credit, I’m usually on my own. Okay, let me explain this, now that I’ve seriously misquoted Frost. Yesterday, I had a dilemma. I had a plan for these Jeff stories, but I got what felt like a better idea. Unfortunately, it would easily add an extra few thousand […]
I went into my nanowrimo with a vague plan. I had some idea where Jeff’s story was going. Enough that I wasn’t too worried about connecting the dots while I wrote. Unfortunately, I’ve hit a point where the story could spin off in a few directions, and I’m not sure which path would be best. […]
I’m about halfway to my Camp Nanowrimo word goal, though I am not about half way done with these novellas. The first one ran long and I have no doubts the others will as well. 10k each was an estimate, not hard number. A fact that I had to remind myself of several times the […]
The hardest part of being an indy author is the everything that’s NOT the writing. The covers, the promoting, writing blurbs. My headache the last two weeks? No matter what I do, the cover for the print edition omnibus edition looks blurry on Amazon’s website. I have remade it twice, and it STILL looks blurry. […]
Is actually going very, very well. My last Nano fell apart on me. I was trying to frantically get Uncommon Animals going and just didn’t have the time. This month, I’m waiting on critiques for Monsters and it’s summer! I finished the draft for the first story, and I’ve started the second. I even took […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 