The UnFairy Tale blog tour continues! Swing by Kris Asselin’s blog for her thoughts on the book. Not surprisingly, she particularly enjoyed my main character’s obsession with mini-golf. Okay, on to writing legacies. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: what do I want my writing legacy to be? Since life [...]
[Note: Don't miss your chance to win a copy of Tess Hilmo's With a Name Like Love which I blogged about recently. The contest ends today at midnight!] Okay, first the good news. My author copies arrived yesterday! An entire box filled with my pretty shiny books! The dog and I both agreed that they [...]
I’ve been working 0n revising my Camp NaNo project, which has been a difficult feat so far. The character has been tricky to pin down, so I finally had to put the manuscript aside and do some free writing to try to get into her head more. I had her tell me about her goals [...]
I’ve been working on a light tween fantasy the past couple months (my Camp NaNo project to be exact) and I finally managed to get the draft into somewhat decent shape so I could send it to a couple of critique partners. Their responses were what I’d been afraid of: the beginning is boring and [...]
Camp NaNo is finished and so is my new project. Well, kind of. It’s just a very rough draft right now with some scenes I already know need to be switched around, and with a couple characters that I’m still trying to figure out. But getting to the end of that draft always feels great. [...]
I’m sure I’ve talked about doubt before because, let’s face it, doubt and writing often go hand-in-hand. Something that I haven’t talked about, though, is that sometimes doubt can actually be a good thing. Sounds crazy, right? Let me explain. When you’re writing and you’re doubting if your story works or if you know your [...]
As I’ve been working on a new tween project, one thing that’s been really tripping me up is scene/chapter endings. This story isn’t quite as plot-driven as some of my other projects, so the chapter endings need to rely more on internal than external tension. I’ve found that this approach has led me to some [...]
It’s been a while since I did an update on my WIP, mostly because life has been so crazy the past few weeks that it’s been difficult for me to really settle into a project. But I finally have! Thanks in large part to Camp NaNoWriMo, I’m steadily working my way through a tween project [...]
James Scott Bell had a fantastic post about writers and doubt yesterday. He talked about how the two go hand-in-hand. Even writers who have “made it” can still experience crippling doubt. Since I’ve been struggling with the new projects I’ve been working on, Bell’s post really couldn’t have come at a better time. So what’s [...]
I haven’t done a WIP update in a while, probably because I’ve been a tiny bit schizophrenic with my current writing projects. I’ve started four–FOUR!–projects in the past couple of months. My brain doesn’t seem to want to settle down on anything. The problem is that I often jump into writing new ideas, only to [...]
