It’s been hard for me to focus on writing this week. So this post is going to be about other things I’m doing. I am in the final stages of putting together my costume for BayCon’s Variety Show. I’m down to the last few details of adding buttons and velcro and making sure everything hangs […]
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I met up today with my friend Melissa Snark and Jennifer Carlson for lunch. We got together mostly to chat and hang out, but of course the subjects drifted over to the state of our writing projects. I was both looking forward to and dreading this part of conversation. I’m in a shaky place confidence-wise at the
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I sent out the latest version of my first six chapters to one of my willing victims beta readers for a check to see if I am where I need to be. I waited with breathless anticipation for her to respond. I could not wait to read her comments, to see her reaction, and to
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I have reached a section of my novel that I have been dreading editing. I have known that it needs to be substantially altered. My problem is I can’t decide the best way to alter it. Right now, the main decision I need to make is do I keep it, or do I cut it
In 2013, I participated in NaNoWriMo. I spent thirty days pounding out 50,222 words for the second novel in my story. I’ve put it away since I wrote it to focus on other projects. The other day, while having problems with the first novel, I pulled it out and looked it over. It has several
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My first forays into writing were writing fanfiction. The quick and dirty definition is that it is a fan-written story involving characters or setting of the original work. They are often posted to people’s blogs or to archives such as The Archive Of Our Own or FanFiction.net. I wrote fanfiction for twenty years, but I’ve been
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I’m about twenty percent through a rewrite of my book, although some people have told me that I’m doing a heavy edit. I call it a rewrite because there are some plot elements I am still revising. One plot element was a conversation between the female protagonist and two of her friends. No matter what
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Where do your ideas come from? I’ve been asked that question both as a writer and as a knitter. Where do those ideas come from? What sparks your imagination? I give what’s probably the most frustrating answer known to mankind. “I have no idea.” A lot of these ideas pop into my head for no
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“So I’ve been reading your blog.” Those words, spoken by a coworker, made my heart run cold. A few of the people I work with know that I’m writing a book, although none of them know the exact details of it. A few of those people know that I am blogging about the experience. And
After a few false starts, I’ve gotten working on the fourth draft of the story. I’m finding this time is that things are finally starting to feel right. Or at least, now the first chapter is feeling right. During my first pass through the story, I struggled with where to start it. I had a
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