Made by MeghanWell, that’s that. Dowser 6 is officially released, paperback and all. All the giveaways and memes and recipes have been posted and shared, etc. So what is a writer to do now? Get back to work, I suppose. But first, I think I’ll play a bit with my new pens and ink samples: And lug […]
I don’t usually talk much about the actual craft of writing here … I just like to write my stories and hope you all like them, but I did write the post below, on request, when I was first marketing my novel, After The Virus, in 2011. Now, I am reposting it here by (another) […]
This week I am transcribing my handwritten 1st draft of my new novel, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic, into the computer. Once this process is completed, I’ll have a 2nd draft ready for story editing (etc). I’ve done this for all my novels, excepting After The Virus, and I’m rather attached to the process […]
… handwritten! I couple of months ago I completely splurged on some clairefontaine notebooks. It was a splurge, because I just scrawl out a first draft, copy it into the computer, and never touch the handwritten draft again. Â Nor am I interested in collecting such things, I usually recycle them. However, I found my […]
Sometimes I forget what it feels like to be me. I get buried in some physical or … occasionally, emotional pain. Or a cold or illness that only time can heal no matter how much echinacea tea I drink. When like this, it’s as if I can only inch forward … get out of bed, […]
I don’t write insightful or instructive blog posts. I read a lot of blogs. I follow all the news about filmmaking or publishing or writing – whatever I happen to be interested in that day – but I don’t write them. It doesn’t really occur to me to share my opinion on such things as […]
Ready?  background / location /characters /plot  – brainstormed – check.  new 300 page notebook, titled, and blank page awaiting brilliance (or at least some words … hopefully pieced together into a story) – check.  red ink topped in the fountain pen – check. Set? new Marianas Trench & Alanis Morissette & The Killers on the […]
Continuing the blog tour theme around here, check out this guest post on Lena Hillbrand’s blog in which I pontificate on the the use of screenplay structure in the 1st draft of a novel. Now, if I only followed my own advice, think how many more of these first draft novels I’d have completed!
This post is part of a Blog Tour supporting Indie Authors and their self-published books. I hope you enjoy getting a little bit of insight into the writer’s mind & craft. If you like what you read, please consider supporting the author by checking out their work (links below). Q. Pitch us your book! A. […]
Image by Matthew Stillman Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Mess up your hair. If you are […]