Tag: Writing

  • POV’s I Don’t Agree With

    Romance 2 is progressing, and once again I’m finding it difficult to write a particular character’s POV. Not a villain, not even a slightly bad guy. He’s a pretty decent dude, just trying to be a normal, nice guy. He’s my hero in this particular book. The problem for me is, his views on certain…

  • Stories With Minds Of Their Own

    One of the reasons I don’t plot, is because sometimes most of the time my stories develop a life of their own. I know where it starts, and I know where it will end. HOW it gets there and HOW it ends is a different matter entirely. My second Romance book is an example of…

  • May 2019 IWSG

    What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? Oh. Ummm…. Are we talking about written language or spoken or just language generally? I was in 4th grade when I learned that one was allowed to write without having been blessed from some authority on high. I was in middle school when…

  • Too… Something?

    I haven’t written since the day before the bomb cyclone in March. I was actually winding down, anyway – not because I was done with the particular book, but because I was struggling again. Then my laptop, while functional, has been giving me increasing amounts of electronic geriatric attitude, so it needed to be replaced…

  • No More Battery Juice

    I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to go and what I needed…

  • IWSG April

    I’m a wee bit behind on my postings. Last week was Spring Break and the monkeys were home and, and, and. Anyhoo, April 2019 IWSG prompt isn’t blowing up my skirt.  Only ONE wish to suss out ONE writing thing, like a single chapter or a specific type of scene? I’ll tell you what my…