First of all, thank you for everyone who commented on my last post. All your lovely thoughts & support mean a lot to me ( Read more... )

Working on TTOB is going Epically Slow. I thought maybe it was that I was tired of my characters, that my wrists hurt, that my mind was too full of critique, something. Anything. Some reason I could point to and say "that's why I'm not getting anything done ( Read more... )

OK, I didn't really forget Friday Five but I'm visiting family this weekend & every time I thought about posting, I was out. So here's a Saturday Six: Characters from TTOB ( Read more... )

First, thanks to all who responded to my Friday Five about my Headache of D00m. Feeling mostly better now, but losing an entire day to passing out in bed was not how I wanted to start my weekend.


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I love knowing a lot about my characters. I do all sorts of character questionnaires, I learn their personality types, I make family trees, I write back-story scenes and scenes from other characters' perspectives. Not only is it fun for me, but IMHO, it gives me a richer story, even if most of that knowledge doesn't make it into the draft ( Read more... )

I feel like in the last year or so I've really "gotten" revision. I knew, in theory, what revision was supposed to do, but even when I thought that was what I was doing, I wasn't entirely ( Read more... )

The last few weeks my revision of DARLINGTON has been driving me crazy. I love Marna & Tennyson & Thacker & etc., but something just wasn't quite clicking. I wasn't still trying for perfection, at least, not in the same way. I'd started rewriting instead of tweaking an already-typed document: some things stayed, a lot of things changed or went away ( Read more... )

I'm currently reworking THE TIES OF BLOOD, my alt-world Regency-era dark wizardy YA, a.k.a. my heart book. Adding the MC's "girlfriend's" POV wound up working much better than I'd expected, but something was still not-quite-right. Isi's first person sections were taking over the narrative, her voice so compelling it was detracting from the MC's ( Read more... )

I'm currently working on three projects. Yeah. Three ( Read more... )