Warning: Long, writing-related post ahead related to September Updates. Totes boring. Keep reading.
Hey y’all, it’s been a while, no? But you know what they say, no blogging=more writing. And in this case, that’s actually true.
Since I decided to, yanno, sell a house, move cross country, buy a new house, and […]
I’ve been having some trouble writing Conviction, the third Razia book.
Now, nobody panic. It’s not like I’m giving up or anything like that. But I wanted to be blog a little about the frustration with this damned book, more so I maybe can find a nugget of wisdom to keep […]
Empath is the first “new” first draft that I’ve written in something like fifteen years. The spirit and character names come from a story I wrote when I was 12, but that story was written by a 12-year-old, and h’obviously needed to be scrapped. The characters as they exist today are […]
I have an interesting conundrum.
For the next two or three years, I’ve got a plan to release the rest of the Razia series, and a couple other books and series. My goal is 3-4 a year until I’m living comfortably on my royalties. As with Razia, most of these books […]
When I first started writing as a pre-teen, my idea of a “novel” was probably somewhere around 20,000 words (at most). So, naturally, I would be able to crank out a book and then get to writing sequels. At the beginning, I was writing upwards of five books in a […]
There’s a writing cliche that has been blogged and opined about for years – “Write what you know.”
Fantasy writers say, “How am I supposed to write as a princess stuck in a tower who owns dragons?”
Sci-Fi writers say, “How am I supposed to write if I’ve never been to space?”
Horror […]
“Patient anticipation
All my life I’ve been hurry up and wait…”
– “Independence,” The Band Perry
In case you missed it, I finished writing my book.
It was actually kind of weird. It wasn’t sitting at a typewriter, putting down the last few words, smiling satisfactorily, and sipping my coffee. I was filling in […]