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Some people view gothic novels as tacky and without merit because they often include sinister settings, tempestuous romances and supernatural elements. But that’s far from the truth. Gothic novels have their roots firmly planted in the finest of literary fiction.  

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YAY! I’ve completed a solid first draft of MH.

Actually I finished drafting at the end of last week, but I was still working on a bookmap of the story. Now the bookmap's finished as well-which makes this a double YAY!!

I was inspired to create a bookmap after reading about them on Cheryl Klein’s blog http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2011/12/behind- ( Read more... )

Before I started my WIP, I did a lot of thinking about my main character’s greatest fear. My WIP is a gothic novel, so I decided I wanted a fear that would be particularly pervasive in that sort of story-you know, genre expectations and all that stuff.

I also decided to take my main character’s fear one step further. I’m trying to make the fear ( Read more... )

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Tonight, I launched into a bit of research for my WIP. It had to do with sheep care, specifically if salt blocks might be found in a modern-day sheep pasture (aka a graveyard).

I know how to care for a fairly wide variety of animals, however I didn’t recall ever having known anything about sheep. But, when Googling sheep care, one of the links was  ( Read more... )

There’s a lot of talk about how the internet is a horrible time suck, a devil waiting to distract writers from their work. This certainly is true. However, cruising the internet also can be a great way to recharge the brain or refocus and find fresh solutions to writing problems.  The trick is to set limits on the time spent online or the number of ( Read more... )

Today I was valuing a stack of Saturday Evening Posts from the early 1900's when I came across this cover. The main character in my WIP is the daughter of an antique dealer. I suspect if she could, she'd step back in time and be this cover-girl.


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