I like that the topic of this post assumes that there’s an actual process as opposed to the chaos that is my existence. My writing process, such as it is, goes a lot like this: Step 1: Get a snippet of dialogue in my head. Step 2: Figure out who’s saying it to whom […]
So, this week’s blog post prompt was a kind of fill in the blank thing. Then, I thought about going with writer or knitter or sewer, or cross stitcher…but I was having trouble narrowing it down. So, I finally decided on… You might be pathologically creative, if… …if you call various family members to the […]
So…I admit, while I might be a rule breaker about some things, there are a bunch of writing rules I try not to break–mostly because I don’t enjoy seeing them in other people’s writing, so I don’t want it in my own. 1.) Info dumps. Giant piles of background story have no place in […]
Let’s see…it’s time for another Five Words or Less Post. I’m currently writing two stories, so I’m gonna do both. WIP: Darkling Night, pissed off faeries WIP: Untitled, music composition, lost chances Characters: Devon, Jonah, Mellie, Fake-Mellie, Thorn Characters: Morgan, James, Tris, Rory, Setting: high school, woods, winter, inbetween Setting: […]
Trigger Warning: This post deals with infant death, grief and loss. … … … I would like to say the most difficult thing I’ve ever written was any of the books I’d completed – like my recent forays into different-for-me genres, but I’d be a big fat liar. The hardest thing I’ve ever written was a poem. […]
There’s that old writers’ adage: write what you know. I have mixed feelings about this advice. It’s true, I set a lot of stories in Michigan, because I know the area fairly well, and it means that I’ll be less likely to screw up certain things. But, I’ve also set stories in the UK. I […]
My writing affects my life and my life affects my writing. Or something. This seems rather like a Schrödinger’s cat kind of thing. Maybe? Kinda? Let’s roll with it because this graphic amuses me. Rather than going into a long, drawn out treatise on how this all works, I’m just gonna share some examples of […]
This week, we’re talking about Real vs. Ideal Writing space. Once upon a time, I used to have an ideal writing space. Here…let me show you… This is my desk-table, which for me is better than a desk because desks make me feel claustrophobic. But now, there’s another desk in this room. My youngest needed […]
With the new year, we’re doing some new things. Wednesday Random posts will still be a regular feature as will Merlin Club until we run out of episodes – at which point, we’ll take a short break and move on to the next series. But we’re also including some new features – stretching our writing […]
Yep…that’s me. I wander through life if a distracted daze, but most of the time, I still manage to get stuff done. But, it would be a lot easier without my top five distractions. 1.) The internet. Hands down, this is my biggest distraction – Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, blogs, Twitter, email, Ravelry, Netflix, Etsy…oh yeah. […]