January 6, 2009Musings Progress Today was the annual retreat for the Evil Day Job. This meant essentially a 6 or 7 hour staff meeting at an […]
January 4, 2009Musings The Story of the Middle I was zipping through my blglines today and came across this post by Jennifer Bianco about plotting out the middle. I often […]
January 2, 2009Musings Getting To Know You…Getting To Know All About You… Everybody’s got different ways of approaching character development and getting to know the characters of a new work in progress. Some people […]
December 31, 2008Musings In Search of the Perfect Plotting Tool I am on blog holiday while I meet a deadline for Evil Day Job. Please enjoy this rerun of one of my […]
December 27, 2008Musings Post-Christmas Prep for 2009 At long last we are, I think, free of family obligations. Everyone has left town, save one uncle who isn’t our responsibility. […]
December 21, 2008Musings Goal, Motivation & Conflict Well I just finished reading Debra Dixon’s Goal, Motivation & Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction. It’s not a long book […]
December 19, 2008Musings Lightbox at iStockphoto This feature could be considered both a procrastination and a useful tool. A lot of us writers like to find faces to […]
December 17, 2008Musings Where To Start? After some massive and intense brainstorming with Pot yesterday, I think we’ve finally hit on a setup that works for me. There […]
December 16, 2008Musings Location, Location Pot is campaigning for a potential change in location of my werewolf story from Germany (which I don’t know all that much […]
December 13, 2008Musings Almost Home… Well I’m writing this post from the updated WordPress 2.7. They’ve gone and changed the whole dashboard. After jumping through a few […]