January 14, 2008Musings Imagery…In the Mind of the Reader “…imagery does not occur on the writer’s page; it occurs in the reader’s mind.” –Stephen King King brings up this interesting and […]
January 10, 2008Musings Mary Sue’s Worst Nightmare Okay, I admit it. I’ve developed an addiction the last couple of days to my StumbleUpon toolbar. It just keeps bringing up […]
January 10, 2008Musings Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules For Writing Fiction I found this list through StumbleUpon and thought they were good ones. I was particularly amused by number 8. 1. Use the […]
January 9, 2008Musings Write Where You Know I’ve been giving a lot of thought to setting lately. All writers, be they amateurs or pros, young or old, have heard […]
January 8, 2008Musings Executive Decision It’s the 8th. There is exactly 1 week left in the Sweat. I’m at 87% total words, at 40% on my current […]
January 7, 2008Musings Daily Progress Report Til Death: 323 (lousy numbers and lousy words) Daily Goal: Not met Bleh. I had a “retreat” for work today, which was […]
January 6, 2008Musings Daily Progress Report Til Death: 525 Daily Goal: Not met Weekly Total: 7742 Weekly Goal: Met I just couldn’t seem to get going on my […]
January 6, 2008Musings Plotters vs. Pantsers:Who’s More Resistent To Change? I finished the first draft of House of Cards in September of 07, and yes, I was a proud mama. It’s the […]
January 6, 2008Musings Daily Progress Report Til Death: 1169 Daily Goal: Met And yeah, okay it’s after midnight and no longer the 5th, but I haven’t been to […]
January 4, 2008Musings Daily Progress Report Til Death: 2760 Daily Goal: Met Today went fairly well. We got Wyatt’s Nanna’s memories on what happened that day twenty years […]