We arrived here in France two weeks and three days ago. Since then, I’ve written ten chapters on a new novel at a pretty good clip. Except for the two days last weekend when I stalled myself out. I’d written up to the point I had outlined. And then realized that several other scenes needed […]
It has come to my attention that next weekend is Memorial Day. Could somebody please tell me how that happened? And, though summer doesn’t officially start until after the solstice, we all know that Memorial Day is the unofficial beginning of long, lazy days, right? Well, if someone could show me a universe in which […]
So, I’m four scenes away from finishing the most terrible Shitty First Draft ever, in the history of man, written. I started this novel on a sunny afternoon in Collioure last September when I got a sudden inspiration. I’ve been working steadily on it since then, taking pretty much the whole months of December and […]
Back in my early writing days, genre was a dirty word. “Oh, she writes genre romances,” someone would sniff. Or, “Well, you know, it’s just a genre mystery.” My, how things have changed. Though not everyone apparently approves or even wants to admit it, the lines between genres (or more to the point, between genre […]
Happy leap day! Are you leaping about, as I’ve seen so many people doing on Instagram? (We humans are nothing if not predictable.) Or perhaps you are still recovering from the looooong Academy Awards show last night? I’m actually doing neither. Instead I’m sitting by the TV set, which is tuned to Doc McStuffins, with […]
Hey, its February! How about that? January went by in a blink, it seems to me I was just in Nashville. I have it on good authority that this month is going to be a good one, full of new ideas and energy. But first, let’s wrap up January with a look at some of […]
It has been a good week for interesting links around the web, and I have saved several in my travels. As regular readers know, I usually do this post on Saturday. But this week on Saturday, I was co-leading a workshop called The Ins and Outs of Publishing, which was held at an awesome bookstore, […]
Today is Thanksgiving day in the United States. For those of you living in other parts of the world, our Thanksgiving is a day to feast and be grateful (never mind that it is slowly getting co-opted by big box stores trying to sell Christmas stuff early). It began waaaay back in the day, when […]
Yeah, I know. It’s November and you’re holed up in your writing cave. Because, NaNoWriMo. You’ve got words to write! 50,000 of them, to be exact! And even if you’re not participating in that NaNo thing, you’re doing your best to get tons of words on the page every day because that’s what we writers […]
Like clockwork, like magic, like butter on bread, here it is, my weekly round-up of writing prompts from my Tumblr blog. I'm in Seattle this weekend, but you should be writing. Kidding! Or not. Anyway, Enjoy! Or don't enjoy, but use them to write like crazy. #288 What was your main character’s relationship with her mother […]
