I’m stuck once more. I thought the fight scene was going to be my sticky patch. But I banged that right out. It sucks but it’s done. I was too excited to get back to writing. And then I realized that I could combine three chapters into one again, and I got super excited. Unfortunately, […]
I was in the process of writing a blog when a tree fell down the road, and I lost internet for 36 hours. However, there really wasn’t much to talk about. I have been plugging away at Red Witch. I plowed through three chapters including my (new and terrible) fight scene. This week, I am […]
It’s the first Monday of the month, and that means a new Chelsea Childling story. A human, non-magical, non-super powered, completely mundane person who hunts monsters? Are you in? The stories come out the first Monday of the month at noon PST and are absolutely free. Sometimes, you might get an ad for my webcomic or […]
So I’ve been not so much rewriting as rearranging Red Witch. No new scenes, just a new timeline for scenes. Occasionally, I switch POV or squash a few together, or extend something, but nothing new. Until today. I knew this was coming. After all, the point of this rearrangement is that I needed more action sequences. […]
I’ve spent the last week reworking Red Witch. I can’t call it a rewrite because I’m not really changing the plot. I am speeding up the action. Combining chapters and rearranging them. Which occasionally mean switching which character has the POV, and cutting/adding to a scene. The good news is that I’ve been working away. The […]
I’ve been really stuck for awhile. My novels really play with the mash up of genres. The mixtures of fantasy, noir, horror, and adventure that makes up “Urban Fantasy” can be fluid. And Red Witch was really supposed to lean heavily into “horror”. The first draft had the horror, but lacked the character-focus I prefer. […]
The last month has been rough for me, as far as writing is concerned. Far worse than genuine writer’s block, I’ve had writer’s lack of ability to get the DAMN WORDS OUT. I know what I want to write. I know where to put it in the draft, but nope, it’s not getting written. So […]
Sorry I didn’t post this earlier… I’ve been writing… kind of. I had a major breakthrough in Red Witch, but I’m having some trouble implementing it. I need to find the right places to make those changes. And then there is Book Three… which is all kinds of tricky and complicated. It’s very, very […]
I got so much writing done last week. Okay, not really. But I did get a vignette finished for the Uncommon Animals Anthology and I got to write chapter that I’ve been envisioning for several years. And I figured out how to “fix” a huge section of Red Witch. All of this, of course, is awesome… […]
Watch as I emerge from the holidays.
Words That Burn Like Fire 