Hi there, and welcome back to the Writer's Workshop. For today's edition, I thought I'd depart from tasting things (my memory of roman nougat's Pink 12 flavor from last week is still too fresh in my mind). Instead, I'm going visual this week, focusing on reading emotions. Now, full disclosure, I'd been intending to go... Continue Reading →
Monday, AM #1 – My Everyday Jam
Hey there, and welcome back to my site for this first in a new series, Monday, AM, or Monday, About Me. The name says it all, really; every Monday, I'll post updates about my writing progress, along with any news from my weekend, including (of course) too-detailed retellings of weird experiences I had. The idea: to have a post each week... Continue Reading →
A Day in the Life
Disclaimer: I'm writing this at 4:29 AM. I'm exhausted but, with the wild, new stress of editing War of Exiles and dealing with assorted other problems lately, I've found I have a hard time sleeping. The edit is going well, but editing a manuscript without taking long breaks between chapters is a completely different beast; you see all... Continue Reading →
Starting a War
A Different Experience From the beginning, my approach to story telling has been grounded in a desire to give readers something fresh. But I realized early on that different experiences go further for making stories fantastic than different worlds do; a novel set in a world full of dwarves, elves, and orcs gains strength from... Continue Reading →