The Ebb and Flow of Writing
There are days that you can’t stop me writing unless you pay me, and even then it might not happen. There are days that the story is hot and I want to pin it down before I lose it in the avalanche of...
View ArticleIdeas, like government cheese, are cheap!
“Ideas are cheap!” Listening to Murr Lafferty say this at Balticon, was like a bomb being dropped in my lap. My initial response was a mix of curiosity and fear, as if wrapping my head around the idea...
View ArticleWriting Frustration!
I am frustrated by my writing. By the way I write, by the process in which my brain organizes these novels and processes them. By my own lack of work ethic when it comes to these damn novels. I am...
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Eating a reader because reader’s digest and writers cramp.
We all knew it was bound to happen…you can’t keep up a 2,000 word a day life (up from nothing since I was editing before this) without a few stumbling blocks. Today is my first one. I would rather do...
View ArticleLocation, location, location!
Much like real estate, location in a novel can be as important as character or plot. Location not only gives us a framework in which to ground ourselves, it allows us to think outside the words...
View ArticleBook Research is FUN!
So a friend of mine, from the writing group, is working on a novel with a blacksmith as a main character. She’d been doing book research and decided it was time to “invade” the Blacksmithing Guild of...
View ArticleThe feet have it. (Blog Bite)
This is going to be a strange story, but I promise I’ll try to make it amusing…but it’s about feet and how amusing can you really make feet anyway? For the last few years…at least the last 8…I’ve...
View ArticlePounding the pavement…
You know, writing is a lot like being out of work. No, seriously, bear with me on this… In talking to a friend the other day about her husband’s lack of job, I asked if he had considered volunteer...
View ArticleDL Thurston Month!
You know it’s good when someone names a month after you…yeah? Well, one of my intrepid co-writers at the Cat Vacuuming Society has found himself the inspiration for this month’s writing. See, D.L. is a...
View ArticleImprov for writers!
So about 12 weeks ago (along with all the other HUGE changes in my life: joining Weight Watchers, getting a trainer again, going Vegetarian) I decided to start taking an Improv class. It is a great...
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