Slow it down

For once, I’m not talking about my brain. Although at the same time, I kinda am. I touched on this a little bit yesterday, how switching from my short story mindset to Epic Novel was tough.  Yesterday afternoon, I figured why. I’ve been slowly but surely whittling down my backlog for my writing critique groups. And I […]

Matching styles

I’m starting to feel sorry for my critiquers, because my novel is a touch… bipolar. At this point, I’m really frankensteining the thing. There’s a lot of cutting and pasting bits of chapters, and then dashing off 100 or so words to tie it all together. Which is fairly normal for the third draft. The real […]

Saturday Scenes

Been working on my novel, The Red Witch, this week. I got to one of the parts that I have been dying to work on: Edie having visions of the past. *** Edie closed the door behind her and click of the lock was frighteningly final. She knew nobody had ever died going to see Prophecy, […]

Learning by doing

I’m one of those people who can read a detailed description of an operation, and not have any clue how to do it. Case in point, writing scripts for the web comic. My first attempt, my artist took my first three scripts and made SIX comics. I took her roughs, rewrote my scripts, and tried […]

Red Heads

Almost forgot to write my blog post today. I’ve been getting writing done, and my brain was all “WRITE IT! WRITE THE RED WITCH NOW!” What actually reminded me was the fact that I was writing yet another red haired character, and chuckling to myself. I have this thing about red heads. Mainly, I have trouble […]

Keeping busy

As always, am I right? But tomorrow my flash series, Chelsea Childling, Newbie Monster Hunter, releases the next installment. I love my Chelsea stuff for two reasons: 1. It gives me something to send out with my newsletter. And 2: it keeps my short story skills sharp. I’m moving away from shorts and novellas and back […]

Cold, wet, St. Patrick’s Day

Thanks to the cold rain today, I kind of feel like this guy is gnawing on my knees. But good news, with walking being painful, I’ve been critiquing again. So yay, I feel less like a taker than I have been on that front. Writing wise, I’ve been working on comic scripts and dossiers for my […]

Pocket Watch Character Spotlight Blog Hop

So one of my favorite writing groups is doing a blog hop today about our favorite characters. You should check them out too! There’s Sarah who will talk about her most adorably broken Nate. Jeanne and her Pony, a centaur of a different color. Amelia and her original monster, Theron, and his human lover, Alex. And […]

This is bad

So there’s something up with WordPress today (formatting on the input page is different or off or something), and I was so excited. Yay! I get out of writing my blog. Why? Because once again, no topic. I’m just doing what I do. Read, write, edit, repeat… until my head melts. And I’m, once again, acutely aware […]