Last week was a writer’s boot camp. Meeting all my fellow recruits, learning the NaNo ropes, and hoping I could keep up with the expected pace. By and large, I’ve managed the pacing. It’s intense, but honestly, I was pushing myself at this rate on book two of by Depths of Memory series in October […]
Kickoff week is here! Halloween night my husband bids me a fond farewell. Booger. I don’t stay up all night to start writing at midnight like some do, but I do promise K.M. “just stick some porn in there” Cambion that if I get stuck with writing I’ll just, well, ‘you know’, to muddle my […]
It’s November 1st, and NaNoWriMo is officially here! The countdown has started, and I’m on my way to completing The Daemon Summoner, my paranormal romance set in a dystopian future Denver, or at least I’m attempting to get 50k words deeper into the manuscript. I’ve decided to keep a daily diary, which I’ll publish weekly […]
There are many things I’m good at. Some I even excel at, when I apply myself, or at least I like to think so. I make award-winning meads and wines, I write stories that set my readers on edge and give them the creepy crawlies (deliberately…), and I do a downright decent job of mothering […]
I recently started in on a new project, all for the standard and good and decent reasons. I’ve decided to write a memoir (ugh, I hate the word!) of sorts on the experience of living with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. One, it’s been eating at me for some time, and I most likely won’t publish it, […]
That’s a trick post title, I’m not going to lie. Editing is hard work, plus it’s a long and involved process. But I won’t bemoan it here. 😉 Instead I’m celebrating passing the halfway mark in editing the first book in my Depths of Memory series. Woot! This is a final (read, 7th edit), pre-query […]
I was asked recently: how do you start writing a book? Now, I’m a fledgling writer, but I’ve done the dirty deed. Yes, it’s messy. And I’ve made much more money code slinging and fermenting grapes and honey. (Fermenting is so much messier, btw.) But those who want to enter the field of writing will […]