Soooooo almost exactly a month ago I said I was committing to writing 1000 words a day. I had been writing that much pretty regularly and didn’t think it would be hard to keep going. But it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. When I’m really moving on a piece, I can [...]
Though I write fantasy, I have several stories that take place in the contemporary world. My characters have jobs, enjoy their weekends off, and observe U.S. holidays. But it can be hard to keep track of the date and the day of the week when my characters are running from one crisis to the next.
One [...]
Yes, books can be dangerous. Just ask school boards nationwide. But what I’m talking about is more insidious and also based in reality. You see, for every book I re-read, that’s one less new book I have time for. Obvious, I know, but still shocking when I realize just how far [...]
It’s the famous question every writer hears over and over, even unpublished ones like me. A few days before my first NaNo, I told my mother-in-law that I didn’t have a story yet, but I wasn’t worried, something would come. And it did, the night before, so I wrote out a couple of paragraphs about [...]
Despite evidence to the contrary, I have not forgotten yet again that I have a blog. I’ve been playing with the sidebar, see? —–> But more importantly, I’ve been working on other writing projects. Not, of course, on the ones I’m “supposed” to be working on, but that’s nothing new. I [...]
