“My Writing Process” Blog Hop
Within the space of an hour, two different people tagged me in this blog hop: my editor Danielle Ellison and fellow Spencer Hill author Liza Wiemer. Saying no to either […]
Now I start reminding myself what it’s like to write.
This month has essentially disappeared on me. I don’t know what happened or where it went. Most of it seems to have been eaten up by my day job and […]
Sing Sweet Nightingale is moving right along!
I’ve heard more than a few times that you better love writing to make it a career. Having started to make it my career, all I can say to that […]
Breaking the suspension of disbelief.
I rewatched Transformers this weekend, a movie I haven’t seen in a while. In the middle of the movie, I ran into a scene I almost forgot about. Then I […]
Writing, professionalism, and qualifications.
Yesterday, I hovered somewhere between amused and annoyed as Twitter reacted to a post (2-5-14: Sorry… post no longer exists) on the Horror Writers of America’s (HWA) LA site titled […]
Posted this on Tumblr. It’s only fair to repost here.
Earlier today, I posted this snippet from a YA contemporary I’m currently writing. It’s from a book I really like, but I’m less than 1/4 of the way through a […]
Keep Calm and Write On.
I’m finished with this round of edits on Sing Sweet Nightingale. I’ve turned in the first draft of The Dream War Saga Book 2. I’m waiting on revision notes on […]
Progress and projects.
This weekend I did something I have never done before. I read Sing Sweet Nightingale in its entirety to my younger sister. Not that Haley couldn’t have read it herself, […]
SSN Edits Round Two! Or is it three?
This week, I’ve begun work on a new round of edits for Sing Sweet Nightingale! I think it’s round two. But it might be three. Maybe 2.5? Whatever the number […]
Today is the day I start playing catch-up.
Catch it! (c) Mateusz Stachowski For the first time all week, I almost feel like my brain is a brain and not a pile of steaming nothing locked inside my […]
Sing revision update #6
OMFG. I am *THIS* close to finishing the first round of revisions on Sing, Sweet Nightingale! THIS CLOSE! Pinch of Sunlight (c) Dani Simmonds Seriously. That close. So close, in […]
Take a chance and learn something new.
After Hours (c) Blade Multimedia Know what’s important? Your own sanity. Happy is good, but you can survive on sane for a long time. It’s a good thing to keep […]
Things and stuff and silence.
It’s a secret (c) Paul Brunskill I’ve come into my blog about six times this week to try to write something. It hasn’t worked. Part of this is because there […]
The importance of characters who have character.
People (c) Jayanta Behera The world is a messy, complicated, and occasionally ugly place. Bad things happen all the time. Sometimes to “bad” people, sometimes to “good.” The world is […]
Cut, chop, snip, slice.
Scissors Cutting (c) Pam Roth My project this week? Seeing how much I can cut out of a book. It’s not something I’ve never had to do before, so this […]