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 […]
May 17, 2009Musings Combatting The Fluff: My Scene Requirements I’ve made so many changes in my process while writing this book. In an attempt to get beyond my innate pantser tendencies […]
April 29, 2009Musings Complicatitis I have a confession to make. I am a victim of complicatitis. Whenever I wind up with a plot problem, I ultimately […]
March 23, 2009Musings Backseat Writers Over the weekend, DH and I got to talking about my current projects. I explained to him my logic for developing my […]
March 20, 2009Musings Fess Up Friday Well it’s Friday, thank God. Not that it’s been a bad week by any means. It’s actually gone by pretty quickly and […]
March 14, 2009Musings A Face And A Title For The Prequel Novella DH and I watched August Rush again the other night. It’s one of my all time favorite movies. The music is amazing […]
March 9, 2009Musings Inertia An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same […]
February 24, 2009Musings Off With The Rose Colored Glasses When you are a beginning writer, you’re fueled by excitement and passion and unflagging confidence in your abilities. You are in love […]
February 23, 2009Musings At Last! A Middle! This morning marks the official completion of my Act 2 outline for Hunted in Shadow. I’m now in the final stretch of […]
February 15, 2009Musings Getting To Know You, Part 3: Structured Character Interviews I’ve had a lot of fun writing out these posts. I love, love, love doing character interviews and playing therapists to recalcitrant […]