Quote of the day: "When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end.  When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out." Vickie Karp

Well, I'm starting in the middle of a WIP I haven't looked at in almost a year. It wasn't the project I'd planned to work on this month, but I've suddenly changed my mind for ( Read more... )

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry ( Read more... )

I've changed so many characters' names so many times I can barely remember who is who.

I got Rinn away from the ghost, but then remembered a thousand yet unaswered questions. Which means I can either throw her back in there and do it right, or blow it off and save it for revisions. I'm leaving toward #2.

This is my first attempt at urban fantasy. It ( Read more... )