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November is nearly here. That means National Novel Writing Month for all you non-writerly types. In other words, insane writing for thirty days. And I still don’t know what to write. Today, I’m asking for your advice. I need your input on how to spend my 50,000 words (or more) in November. It’s not like …
Writing is waiting. And waiting some more. All the while you keep writing, but part of your brain is wondering about the wait. Even self published authors must deal with some of this. They send a manuscript to their editor and have to wait for it to come back, marked with changes they must make …
Writing is easy. All you have to do is bleed on the page. And if you’ve been writing for any length of time, you know how true this sentiment is. It’s the reason many people keep their written words hidden. I poured my heart and soul on that page. If someone laughs or scorns after …
Bleeding on the Page. Thanks for the advice, Hemingway! Read More »
Rat-a-tat-ta-tat. The sound echoes from behind the closed patio doors clear at the opposite end of the house. A headache pulses in my temples. No dream comes without a few headaches. Case in point: my dream patio One day we were talking to a landscape designer who was giving us the brush-off. After all, we …
Today, I welcome my fellow authors to the blog. In honor of our latest release, Masked Hearts: A Fantasy Romance Anthology, each of my co-authors will talk about their favorite fantasy creatures. Since we read fantasy (as well as write it), I took our penchant for the genre into consideration when I worded the question. …
Favorite Fantasy Species: Meet the Authors of Masked Hearts Read More »
*This post was first published on May 4, 2016 on the Roane Publishing Blog. If you’re an author, you’ve heard these platitudes before. More frequently than you want. For those of you who meet and talk to writers, you may have said one of these five things. Authors aren’t the only ones to suffer from …
If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, you can get eight novellas for under a buck. Check out Virtually Yours at your favorite retailers. Since last spring, I have been working on this novella off and on, amid the three short stories I sold (and needed to edit), the Bible study I released …
I’m an author and sometimes I get lucky enough to hang out with other authors. Such is the case with my guest today. I met Melissa in a critique group on Scribophile. We chatted about life-type things before discussing writing stuff. Well, maybe talked about both at the same time. I’m thrilled to announce that …
When it rains, it pours. Manuscripts in need of editing, that is. Each in a different stage of editing: developmental, line and copy edits, oh my. It’s a three-layer parfait. Of doom. The work in progress novel must be ready for submission by the beginning of May. And it’s rough. It’s missing crucial elements. It …
The Three Stages of Editing – And why you shouldn’t try them all at once Read More »
I hope you’ll click through and check out the interview author Mercedes Fox did with me. She ran it on her blog on Thursday, February 18. Why do I write in the genres I do? When did I start writing? What sort of things inspire me? Click here to read all these answers and more! …