Category: Writer
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The Point of Publishing…
I’m not there yet. I’m a slow writer. I’ve learned through observation that the masses do not want to wait 2 years in between books that are all a part of the same series (well, not anymore – 30 years ago, there wasn’t much of a choice, but now…). If you make them wait, you…
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IWSG June
What’s harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names? Oh, please, GoofenDoodle. Character names are so easy. Fantasy names I can either slam together sounds until it feels right or lift something out of an article I’m reading and change a few letters. If I’m writing a fiction loosely based in…
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IWSG April
When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing? Hey, now – No one said these questions were going to get personal. I think it depends on HOW is my writing life cloudy – Are we talking about “I have no…
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IWSG February
What do you love about the genre you write in most often? Oooo…. I’m a fantasy girl. Always have been. Magic is awesome. Dragons are cool. Castles and swords and spells, oh my! World building from scratch is probably the easiest thing (for me). The problem stems from my obsessive need for detail. If I…
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IWSG October
Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose? What? You mean like hair color? Previous work experience? Conversations? Isn’t that what research is? Here’s a counter-question: How do you write a story with believable characters if you DON’T? An example: The character is described as…
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2017 School Year Resolution
*This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…
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