In A Third Kind of Madness/ In Sleep You Know/ On Creating/ Writing Growing a Plot From a Stem I come up with characters, or more properly - they show up, and I put them in a scene and see how they work… Continue Reading →
In Cast A Shadow Of Doubt/ In Sleep You Know/ Writing What is the Stories of the Eleriannan series about, anyway? Even with blurbs on the back of novels that aim to get you interested in a book in a couple of short sentences, there's… Continue Reading →
In Cast A Shadow Of Doubt A Book Birthday for CASOD! A year ago my second book in the Stories of the Eleriannan, Cast a Shadow of Doubt , was released to the world. It… Continue Reading →
In Goals/ On Creating/ Personal 2023: Reach For The Sky Even before this time of the year – the annual musing on endings/beginnings days – got here, I’ve been thinking about what I want… Continue Reading →
In Personal/ Writing 2023 is the Year to Embrace Every year I choose a word to represent everything I want to embody in the next 365 days. This year the word is Embrace.… Continue Reading →
In On Creating/ Personal Dance: no language, just sound My love of dance is one of the things that's shaped me. And dancing and music are important in my Eleriannan stories.… Continue Reading →
In On Creating/ Personal/ Writing A Big Why for 2023 I've been thinking about the Big Why, as in "Why do you do X thing?" aka "What's your motivation?" It's been on my mind… Continue Reading →
In NaNoWriMo/ Writing NaNoWriMo Check-In on Day Eight I like being honest with my readers, so here it is: Dear Readers, NaNo is a real struggle this year.… Continue Reading →
In A Third Kind of Madness/ NaNoWriMo/ Novel Updates/ Writing Getting ready for NaNoWriMo 2022 You probably know by now that I'm a big proponent of NaNoWriMo, and even used it to write large chunks of my published books.… Continue Reading →
In Characters/ On Creating These people? Oh, they’re all me. People tell you to write what you know. It's one of the most common pieces of advice to aspiring writers. And it works: when… Continue Reading →