Party Time!

THAT was productive. I opened up Tuesday’s file in *False Perceptions* and remembered why brushing up the first three chapters sounded like such a good idea yesterday. I was stonewalled. Couldn’t figure out how to write the scene I’d started. It appears that I can have the result from a different scene so, minus 200,…

The past couple of days have been a struggle, fighting my way out of these plotting doldrums. Because I couldn’t quite figure out the best approach, I went back to pricing work in the store on the new order guide that just arrived this week, allowing the sub-conscious time to mull over the worldbuilding and…

Caught up in the struggles of writing a novel? Frustrated by the blinking cursor? Fighting with blank pages, soggy plots, or on-strike characters? If you’d like to regain–or, perhaps, find for the first time–your joy in writing, why not learn How to Think Sideways from established novelist and well-loved writing instructor Holly Lisle? She’s taught…

When writing a novella collection with three others, all living in various parts of the continent, we face the problem of how to coordinate our stories. Of course, we can send a lot of emails. We could even talk on the phone if we wanted (I’m not a phone kinda gal!) We could chat via…

Today’s 3108 blew me past 40K with a good bit of breeze. At this stage, fun as the writing is–and the arguments–it’s hard to share snips without context. So…sorry!