We’re about in the middle of NaNoWriMo and I bet a lot of your feeds are full of posts like this – “12,000 words, a good start” or “didn’t meet my goal today! ARRRRGH!” While I am a huge fan of anything that pushes writers...
I’m just now getting in to the editing process and finding it delightful in the sense that this thing I wrote is getting better. I tend to write in flurries, moving fast and then letting it sit, which means I can sometimes forget little things...
I have a friend who, right now, is lacking inspiration. She has drive and she has ambition but lacks the spark that gets you started. I think I went over this before but when the idea for my first book hit me, six months or so...
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don’t always whittle down. Sometimes you whittle up. – Grace Paley, American Short Story Writer/Poet This week I touched base with...
The thrill of selling a book and telling people about it is still very fresh and fun but I’ve noticed something. I’m bad at talking about my book. Really bad. Part of the reason is a book where young men and women form gangs and kill...