Writing Process

For the last few weeks, since the writing marathon in October, I’ve been getting up early every morning and driving to the gym. Once there, I’d do a combination of elliptical and treadmill, basically going fast for 45 minutes. Then I’d spend another 20-30 minutes on the mat, doing yoga, before driving home, showering, feeding […]

80% of the time, I write into the darkness. I haven’t a clue what the next scene is, much less the next sentence. I write long, complicated novels like this, as well as simpler, straight forward ones. The latest Cassie novel (Bloodied Ice) is a good example of that. It was the fourth and final

One of the things that I’d learned in the past, but that really has gotten hammered on this year is that I *cannot* write when I’m exhausted. Period. Possibly I can do some non-fiction, but in all honestly, sleep is one of those things I can no longer skimp on. It makes me frustrated, sometimes.

Between my husband and I we know a lot of writers. Some are just crafting their first stories, others have many novels under their belt. We were talking on the drive down here that some of the less experienced writers who we know are still looking for the secret handshake–that one bit of advice that’s

I don’t often talk about my writing process. There are a couple of reasons why. The main one is that while my process may shift and change slightly, I have a pretty solid process. I just finished novel #34 and will start #35 tomorrow.   The other reason is that I’m a fairly intuitive writer.