I spent my morning working through notes on the Red Witch. I’m super fortunate to find a grammar guru who loves my work. So, as she’s plowing through the Red Witch, I go along behind her, cleaning up my mess and clarifying what was explored during The Haven. And unlike my novellas, I’m not as […]
Me and my projects. I have lots of them, but they’re all in the same universe. So even when I’m hanging out with Chelsea and Jackson, I’m still helping Marley and Edie. I switch between projects as need be, drafting, editing, and polishing in cycles. However, yesterday, I made a breakthrough on the sequel to […]
I have three kitties: Ollie, Bruce, and Clark. My own personal Justice League, protecting us from the evils of mice. And they are much like their fictional counterparts. Ollie is genial, sweet, even. Just don’t pick a fight. As any number of cats in our neighborhood learned before he became indoor kitty. Clark is super […]
I love the man, I do. He used to be my writing partner, before his job got to be too much work. He’s still my number resource when it comes to writing though, and my harshest critic. If I have a plot snarl, I yak at him until it goes away. Sometimes, he can help […]
Another day of critting, editing, cleaning, and being a stay at home mom. But I’ve got few minutes between folding seven loads of laundry and starting dinner to realize that holy crap, I really need to sit down and work on one of my characters. My novels always play with structure. The first one had overlapping chapters […]
Read, critique. Read my critique, fix my chapter, repost my chapter. Repeat. This has been my life the last few days. And I’m not complaining. I’ve been in a whirlwind of projects, getting things nailed down. A little worried about one story in Last Call, but we’ll see how other people react to it. And […]
So yesterday, I’m all like, “Focus, bitches!” (The bitch is for emphasis!) I started the scene I need for my Hedge Doctor series. Worked on my book covers. And then my kid got sick, at the Mexican restaurant. So today, less focus, more ginger ale and crackers. But that doesn’t mean no writing. I’m hoping […]
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 […]
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 […]
That’s where I was last night at 10:30. I had finally finished updating all 13 of my ebooks on Amazon. As of last night they all include the link to my newsletter. It’s a bi-monthly publication, once on publishing day and once a month, a flash story about Chelsea Childling: Newbie Monster Hunter On the […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 