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I'm not as far along in the edits as I'd like to be (for my own sanity) but paying the bills is becoming slightly more important.  I know, priorities, right ( Read more... )

I'm continuing to work through some edits, most of which aren't so bad.  But I'm finding a discerning need to line edit as I go, and I'm trying to get out of the habit.  Honestly, the prose is fine.  (Or so I tell myself).

A few things I've noticed, now that I've had some space and distance from Witch Eyes.

1)  I usually consider dialogue one of my ( Read more... )

On the outlining front, I went back and fleshed out the climax of book two, and actually ended up with something different than I started with.  It's funny though, because it actually has a LOT of similarities with the original ending of Witch Eyes, the one that I scrapped when I got to go back and figure out what I was missing with the Lost Day.  ( Read more... )

I've been in a bit of a holding pattern this week, on a lot of fronts.  Makes me wonder if there's some major astrological conjunction I'm aware of that's putting everything into hiatus ( Read more... )

So I realized I never posted on my blog about this ( Read more... )

Well, since everyone else is doing it.

#1.  The Scottobiography - (See how I made a play off autobiography? - that's about how witty this was):  written around age 7.  Still has the best climax ever, in the history of the written word.  It involved a typewriter, and extensive use of the Tab to trail the text down the page, and tell the reader that ( Read more... )

Someone asked me a few days ago where I got the idea for WITCH EYES ( Read more... )

So there was a thread on FFF this week asking the authors there why they picked the things they've picked, as far as the supernatural races in their stories.  Since I'm not a member there (yet! he says with confidence), I decided it was an interesting topic and decided to blog about it on my own journal ( Read more... )

I wrote something last week, a thoughtful and well timed piece about what was going on with the writing, the kind of progress I was making, and all sorts of good stuff. And then I closed the window accidentally ( Read more... )