Yet another day when I’m pretty sure I won’t get much writing done. Not that I mind. The husband needs a day off to recharge. And a happy Father’s Day to any other dad’s reading this. I’ll be on the phone with mine soon. And since I’m resigned to no writing for until Wednesday afternoon […]
Today is my oldest kid’s birthday. So, writing is absolutely taking a back seat. I just want to throw out a piece of advice to my fellow writers: If you’re privileged enough to beta read for someone, check your ego at the door. You’re supposed to be helping them find their voice, not trying to […]
For the first time since the original spark of idea, I found myself daydreaming about Jeff. How to end the scene he’s in and where to go from there. It’s a good sign. I’m so busy with the end of the school year, the oldest kid’s birthday, and all the critiques for Monsters that I […]
That’s what I’ve been looking at for three days now. Still no significant progress on Jeff’s story, but that’s because I’ve been getting mad crits on Monsters. Priorities and all. I need to get Monsters in shape for publishing, I can keep working on Jeff’s stuff in the mean time. I have been getting a […]
That was writing yesterday. A sentence here, a paragraph there. A few bits of action for Jeff, and a breakthrough for Monsters. Jeff’s stuff I’m building, and I’m pretty sure I’ll have the set up done by Friday. Monsters… I’m at the point where I’m adding the layers. The thing about writing a series is […]
Just not the story I had intended to work on. Saturday night, more than a little buzzed, I got in a discussion with some folks about the second Monsters of Pittsburgh story. The middle is sagging, and every single critique has said so. I cut 800 words and still got the critique that there was […]
No, I didn’t get any writing done this weekend. For one things, I had a birthday party to go to with my youngest. For another, I’ve had wretched headaches all week. Finally getting past them. I’m still a little hung up on this Jeff story. I think I’ve figured out how to fix the damn […]
I like writing characters. That sounds weird, but I like watching characters grow and change. Mina in The Hunted is not Mina in Hunter’s Moon. Oh, she’s still got a temper, and she has a few odd quirks about Speakers, but she’s in a very different place mentally and emotionally. So, I had a lot […]
So I started the new series, my witch series, and I think I might have too much story. As stupid as it sounds, the trick to writing short fiction is to focus on one event. The stories I’m envisioning for Jeff are very big. I’ve thought about cutting out certain plots, but if I do […]
Ahh, annual airing of insecurities. And today I shall come out and say the unthinkable, “I don’t have an editor.” This is a mortal sin in the publishing world. And I get it, I do. I’m a lousy proofreader. In addition to my love of weirdly arranged sentences, I have this horrible habit of […]
