I’m many days late,  I’ve been trying to finish up an editing job
before November. Here is the first take of my plot done up in the 7
point system.
I wrote them up in the order I listed in the previous post, but I’m

typing them up here in the order they’ll come in the novel to make sure
they make sense to me.
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In the writing world, it can seem like there are two camps: Plotters and Pantsers. I’ve done both and they each have merit.


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So, I’ve got a new Twitter account, the more professional sounding @Lisa_Bouchard.  It can be hard work, populating your twitter follower and following lists with people who 1) will read what you write and2)won’t spam all the time.  I don’t mind some ads, but if that’s all a person has to contribute, well, my time is too valuable to wade through a ( Read more... )

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So, I’m very far behind in my Escape Pod listening but I’ve recently listened to Greg van Eekhout’s story “Will You be an Astronaut” and I loved it.

Will You be an AstronautIt starts off rather innocently and gets dark and creepy. By the end of the story you completely understand why Steve Ely warns that it is not a story for children even though ( Read more... )