I’ve been writing for a while. I’m currently writing my seventy-second (72) novel. I have some opinions about writing, the process and the craft.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that there’s very little advice about writing that works for every writer.…
My husband wrote a Business for Breakfast book about World-Building Space Opera. Recently, while we were going for a drive (as we do) and talking about the next B4B book he’s writing, he asked me if I’d consider writing a business book on how to create magic systems.…
Lost weight this past week. I had compressed my eating window significantly in the hopes that would move the needle in the right direction, and it did.
I am not convinced that I will be able to maintain my current eating habits, however.…
I’ve decided that the next time a writer asks me for that one piece of advice I’d like to give every writer, I’m going to tell them this:
Buy a hat.
No, not because I have some milliner friends who need the support.…
In an ideal world, I’d be able to write and publish an absolutely brilliant novel once a month, every month.
At this point, I can’t. I may never be able to.
But I have been looking at my individual processes, trying to tweak them and so speed up the entire process, and possibly gain more quality as a result.
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One of the things that I’ve been told I’m good at, in terms of writing, is creating fully rounded secondary characters.
I’ve been going through “The Popcorn Thief” the last couple of weeks, reading every chapter out loud. This novel is all about Voice, and my ear will catch things my eye misses.…
I haven’t written much this week. Not at all. Some of it was physical–felt like shit for a couple of days, got hit by a freight-train of a migraine that knocked me on my ass for a day as well.
But I could have written other days.…
Had an interesting realization today.
The most important thing for the day, today, was typing up chapter eight.
I was about halfway through, taking a break, when I realized that for some reason, I felt I wasn’t doing the most important thing.…
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While I have a lot of pictures from fashion shows, these characters who walk the runway, I also get inspired by pictures of settings.…
I didn’t really write today. Maybe only 1500 words. I needed a break, after writing so hard and fast.
I’ll still finish this chapter up tomorrow, and maybe do one more before the end of the year.
I went back and looked at my stated writing/publishing goals for 2012.…