Hi there. Yes, I know it is Friday and for the last couple of months I’ve consistently been cranking out Five on Friday posts, wherein I cheerily catch you up on what I’ve been doing all week and drop in a few brilliant helpful writing tidbits. And today I started out with the same intention […]
My brain looks like these Christmas lights some mornings. Another title for this post might be Why You Need a Routine. Or more to the point, why I need one. Here's the setup: A morning in December. After a busy weekend of Christmas parties (we survived hub's resurrected Christmas office gala!) and work deadlines (yes, […]
I’m looking for the first line of my novel, the one I’m currently rewriting. It’s funny, I have this unwarranted idea that the first line should spring, fully formed and perfect, into my mind and from there I will write the rest of the novel. This is not what has happened with this current novel. […]
Your writing needs description to make the people and places you're writing about come alive in the mind of the reader. Duh. But opinions on how much description vary. Some like a lot, some like a little. I fall somewhere in between. I like a lot of description–and I will admit to finding myself skimming […]
I finally did it. I cleared away appointments (except for one) and committed to participating in Milli Thornton's 10K writing day. (Regular readers will remember the guest post Milli recently wrote for me.) I've wanted to do this forever but other commitments kept getting in the way. Until yesterday. And so, I rose at […]
I spent yesterday afternoon reading a rewrite of a client's novel (at least the first part of it). He has struggled with point of view in the past, and I've nudged him mercilessly on it. So I was thrilled to see that he is mastering it! Reading his manuscript brought to mind some tips on […]
This is a paid book review for the BlogHer Book Club, but the opinions expressed are mine. Reflected in You, by Sylvia Day, is currently number one on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. The reasons for this are a mystery to me, but then so is the popularity of Fifty Shades of […]
