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 […]
May 12, 2009Musings Simplify, Simplify My current WIP, Hunted in Shadow, is set up around a murder and a missing person. The murder peripherally affects the hero […]
May 8, 2009Musings First Draft Act 1 Finished Well, yesterday I finished Act 1–a very very rough draft. From what I reviewed last week, I am fairly happy with about […]
May 5, 2009Musings Not So Sekrit Project…Maybe So during a conversation with my friend Cyndi yesterday, she happened to mention that she was working on a Nocturne Bite. A […]
May 4, 2009Musings Novel At A Sprint I am a big fan of these various write a novel at a sprint sort of challenges. NaNoWriMo (which I’ve done a […]
April 30, 2009Musings What’s The Risk? I have been slowly plowing through the massive backlog that is my Bloglines. It’s astonishing how fast it piles up! Anyway, I […]
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 […]
April 23, 2009Musings Shifting Gears: POV Point of view usually isn’t a huge decision for me. For 99% of my work, it’s third person with a rotating viewpoint […]
April 18, 2009Musings Love Conquers All I have been a reading fiend this week. It’s been awesome. Of course it helps that I’ve had some really great books […]