I have discovered something in the last couple months: I am not a great beta reader. It’s not that I don’t enjoy beta reading, because I love to do it. And I try to be a good reader for my buddies. The problem is I am just too easy to please. It doesn’t take much [...]
(Chapter Six of The Raskolnikov Project is now up and ready to be read.) It is a discouraging thing to look at a manuscript and know that it would be better to completely rewrite it than to simply edit it. What a daunting task. You stare at all the work ahead of you and wonder, [...]
A comment the lovely Glenna left after the second chapter of The Raskolnikov Project: I have noticed a trend when I am writing first drafts – I generally get a few chapters in before I know who my main character is. I learn the narrator through how they relate to other characters and the surroundings. [...]
The last thing I really need in my life right now, what with Baby Caveman keeping me on my toes and edits (and a lot of rewriting) of Incubus taking up my writing time, is another project, but that is exactly what I have here. Editing is a lot of work, and I am enjoying [...]
If you read the comments to my Road Trip Wednesday post from last week, you will quickly see that the vast majority of my readers have the same problem when it comes to finishing a book: CONFIDENCE You are afraid you are not good enough. That your idea is not good enough. That you will [...]
It’s Wednesday again, and this week our road trip is working a little differently. Instead of asking a question, the lovlies at YA Highway want each of us to ask our own question and then travel blog to blog answering everyone else’s questions in the comments. Fun, fun! When writing, what is the biggest obstacle [...]
Geek Husband makes the best homemade bread. Seriously, it’s so good that I have no problems declaring it the best (I am a lucky girl). I have been asked on occasion to share his recipe with others, but I can’t. It’s not that it is some big secret, it’s just that he never uses a [...]
It’s Wednesday again, which means it is time for another virtual road trip. This week, the ladies at YA Highway want to know: What is your favorite line from your WIP? I don’t know if this is my favorite line, but it is the one that jumped out at me, so I am going to [...]
I blogged last year about how I don’t like the term New Year’s Resolution because of the negative stigma attached to it. But, like I said in that post, I am a huge fan of goals. Every so often I look at the goals I have set and re-evaluate how I am doing with them [...]
Like I have been saying for a short while now, I am trying to find a way to find the pure joy of writing. I am looking to get all the thoughts and pressures of publication and being an author out of my head. And let me tell you, since I have immersed myself into [...]
