Hijacked By The Kitchen Witch
Every month or two my brain gets hijacked by Lorelei McIllhenney. She’s the series heroine I’ve got on the backburner until such […]
Tag: Craft
“New Adult” Fiction
When I was going through high school (and well beyond) I always wondered why there was no fiction out there about people […]
What Does Editing Mean?
Since I have gotten interested in becoming a part of the indie movement, and particularly since I’ve gotten into e-books, I have […]
The Siren Song Of New Shiny
Now that the initial excitement of releasing Forsaken By Shadow has passed, I’ve stopped the obsessive checking for sales (there have been […]
The Challenge of Short
I often hear students freak out about the length of assignments. I rarely assign papers as a rule because most students can’t […]
Bad Writing Advice
My crit partner and I were just discussing last night how our thinking about plot and structure has changed over the past […]
Reflections On The Book 100
Back in the fall of 2008, I read Heather Seller’s Chapter By Chapter, in which she issued the challenge of reading 100 […]
Autopsy and A Note About Character Goals In Romance
Even though I have made my peace with the death of HiS/FB, there is still a part of me that wants to […]
Pivotal Beginnings
Last night my husband and I watched the latest Star Trek. We saw it in the theaters, of course, but watching it […]
Upping the Ante
I have a…well I hesitate to call it a flaw exactly, but I have a consistent kind of problem with my stories […]