Last week in my guest blog on The Dogpatch, I explained how my writing process has changed this year from an annoying hybrid of discovery writing & outlining to a flawless summary method. If you haven’t read it yet, you might want to check it out here. Not only because […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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So, a while back I promised to tell you all about my new writing process of summarizing the story before I draft. Not only am I sharing the details of my process, but it’s featured this week as a guest post on The Dogpatch Writer’s Collective. Check it out, and […]
I get some of my best ideas at night. I don’t mean while I’m dreaming, although that happens too; dream-ideas are usually so vivid and visceral that they stick in my mind and I’m able to call them up almost at will. Entire novel-length stories form around those ideas, which […]
Well, this has been one heck of a week in writing. I started last sunday spending about eight hours glued to the keypad, with a couple of bathroom breaks and a meal somewhere in there. The next day, I kept going, and the day after that. The longest day I […]
Well, yesterday I went public. No, I don’t mean I formed an IPO, I mean I stood in public and sold myself as purveyor of words for the very first time. This weekend Whatcom Writers and Publishers and Chanticler Reviews hosted a local book faire, Books and Brews, at Boundary […]
This morning, due to various factors both in and out of my control, I sat down to write for the first time in several weeks. It was great to be back. I killed it. I busted out a scene in chapter 12 (yes, I’m still in dreaded chapter 12) that […]