Hijacked
I had grand plans–okay not so grand, really. But I had intended to knock out my last 700 words for the week […]
Tag: Plotting
Life Lessons
So I’m in Vicksburg this weekend for annual training for work. I’m part of the Research and Development side, so I’m part […]
Getting Back Into Good Habits and A Last Thought On Plotting
Summertime seems so much to be a time where things relax. School’s out (usually), people go on vacation, diets lapse (what, you […]
Playing Catch Up and Calling All Winners!
After a week in which I wrote 8586 words in blog posts (just here–not counting what I’ve done on my cooking blog […]
From Pantser To Plotter: Why Plot?
It’s been a big week here at Shadow and Fang. I think I’ve written my two longest blog posts to date. If […]
From Pantser To Plotter: My Conversion, Part 2
So yesterday I talked about the aspects of craft that are very important to my plotting. I warn you, this is another […]
From Pantser To Plotter: My Conversion, Part 1
My going from Pantser to Plotter has been a multi-step process. There is a misconception, I think, among pantsers that to be […]
From Pantser To Plotter: Why The Pantser Fears Plotting
When Lynn did her call for Left Behind and Loving It contributors this year, I decided right off that I wanted to […]
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, […]
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 […]