June 11, 2009Musings Avoiding Another Case of Complicatitis Almost a month ago, I had an idea for a fairly major change in Hunted in Shadow, which would be hugely dramatic, […]
June 10, 2009Musings Debut Novel Word Count Word count was never something I concerned myself with during the first decade I wrote. I focused on pages then. It wasn’t […]
June 9, 2009Musings What’s a Character Arc Anyway? When I set myself the task this week of writing out the character arcs of my hero, heroine, villain, and main subplot […]
June 8, 2009Musings Productive Weekend I didn’t get much done on the writing front this weekend. Reading front either. I’m only about 100 pages into The Demon’s […]
June 5, 2009Musings Ebooks vs. Dead Tree Books: Less Exciting Without Physical Product? I’ve been loosely following all the dire predictions about the publishing industry since the economy started to tank. It’s been interesting to […]
June 5, 2009Musings Call to Action! Tag! You’re It! Okay a while back I recommended my friend Kerry Allen‘s novella Beyond the Darkening as an awesome free read. Well Kerry’s struck […]
June 4, 2009Musings Scenes and Sequels One of the big things I got out of reading Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer is the concept of Scenes […]
June 3, 2009Musings Dish Network Losing DVR? I woke up this morning to the news that we may be losing our DVR. Huh? Hubby mentioned that Dish Network (our […]
June 2, 2009Musings A Publishing Geek I have had the good fortune to get to know over the last year or two, indie writer Zoe Winters. Zoe is […]
June 1, 2009Musings Update and A Funny I’m really busy at work today playing catch up. As an update on the situation at the evil day job, when I […]