While my betas and crit partners are tearing through Last Call, I’m working on the Red Witch. So there I am last night, trying to get some work done. I’m dithering, playing more than typing. And suddenly, BOOM I have story. I’m cutting and pasting from old chapters. I’m filling in blanks. Before I knew exactly what […]
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 […]
It’s almost April. Monsters of Pittsburgh: Omnibus comes out in ten days. And Hedge Doctor: Prom comes out in June. Now the Omnibus, of course, takes care of itself. Those stories are done. But Hedge Doctor needs a proofreading, and the other two stories in the series need a little work still. Nothing major, just a scene […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
This is supposed to be a daily blog. As in I write about writing every day. That’s kind of the damn point. But every now and then, I cheat and write one ahead of time. See, I started working on my novels again, and they are a different animal from my novellas. They are complex […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 