I did not just spend the last couple of hours with a new writing prompt, “Write about someone who goes too far.” I did not just write the prologue to what could easily turn into a new novel. An epic fantasy novel at that. I am not currently absolutely fascinated with this idea, this world, […]
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Hi all! Just a quick note to let ya’ll know that I’m having a *wonderful* time in London. Seeing all the people from my reunion was more fabulous than I can say. And the research is going well. Hope ya’ll are good too! Bye!
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Tomorrow I’ll be heading for London. Anyone else want to get together? Please feel free to email me your contact information. I’ll be there a little over a week. Wheeeeeee!
From lots of places: If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence (or more) from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose
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This weekend I had a major revelation as to why I wasn’t writing how I wanted to be writing. The adjustments I’ve made so far seem to be working — I added about 2000 new words to the novel this weekend, as well as replaced untold others, completing my rewrite of chapters three and four.
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At first, there was the entire saga of Msscribe, which was a train wreck that I couldn’t look away from. (If you’re not up to reading the 90,000 word account, here’s an abbreviated version.) Then came the Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle. The only thing I knew about CC was that she’d written The Very Secret
Hey there! Yeah, yeah, I know. Long time no hear. Hasn’t meant I haven’t been thinking about ya’ll. Did a writing prompt this morning, “Write about a time you cried.” Only I ended up writing a short story that was the back story of one of the main characters for the novel, and how he
I finished typing up the Topiary story this morning. It was interesting to me to note that the start of the story required a lot of rewriting as I typed it in, mainly in the form of adding details and information. The end of the hand-written version was much more complete. Though I know I
What would be the equivalent of taking the waters at Lourdes for a high-born British woman in 1805? Something that she’d do on the continent. . .