For the past two years, I used a post close to the new year to measure my progress against my goals. Not this year – it’s far too exciting to look ahead. I’m learning publishing in the same way I learned writing – step by step. The business of publishing is in the midst of […]
Previously, I thought I had a way to portray dual timelines–vignettes. Now I know that they will work for some cases, but not for all. I have to use the best technique for story advancement. It may be a flashback. It may be one or more scenes. It could be a chapter. It could even be […]
Here I am, swimming in the published author pool. The view from here is surreally different. I’m not quite the same person I was before last week. I can now point to a piece of work I have finished and launched into the world for all to see – perhaps even read. 🙂 It’s gratifying to […]
Champagne anyone? Sparks is done–sent off into the world to pursue its destiny.I’ve put a permanent line through the ‘publish Sparks’ item on my list. Now I can fully focus on the next story. Except that… I hadn’t realized that readers would get so attached to Gabrielle and Jarin. Friends ask what their next story […]
It’s good that my nights are filled with dreams about my new story. I hardly have time to work on it during the day. Writing to my dreams saves me the time of figuring the story out during the day—and then writing. My days are consumed with the logistics of publishing Sparks. It’s a complicated dance […]
It took all summer, but just as Jarin will, I’ve put down my brush and pushed away from the easel for the last time. Sparks is ready to be published. Look for it in October, 2012. My marketing plan is helping me to plan and execute. The professionals I am meeting along the way are courteous, tremendously […]
I started to share another rant about my characters, but Zzzz…. – boring! They’re still misbehaving, but so what? They’re revealing a number of sources of conflict and forcing dramatic irony to materialize. After eighteen months of learning that I needed to rewrite, then learning how to rewrite and finally – actually doing it, I […]
Guest Post by a.e.Tyree When a writing teacher first suggested I write Flash Fiction, I thought she was crazy. Write a complete story in under 1000 words with a compelling setting, interesting characters, a conflict and resolution. Impossible! But when she explained some of the ways it could help me complete my current novel, I […]
Yes – I know it’s customary to count down to the new year, and no – I’m not counting the wrong way. I’m saying goodbye to 2010, – or as I’ve come to think of it – my year zero; and saying hello to my year one. It will be my ferst furst first full year […]
I’m tackling a thorough revision of my debut novel, and have been developing the revision outline since mid-November. It’s a scene-by-scene revision of a 400 page manuscript – and it’s my first. So naturally, completing the outline is taking longer than I planned. ROW80 is the perfect challenge to keep me mindful of the finish line. So […]
