To everyone who reached out to me and sent me well wishes last week – thank you! I did recover from the sinus infection, and I got all my grades turned in on time. I also completed my first pass through THE INQUISITOR’S MARK, making the revisions requested in just...
I’ve often called myself a pantster on this blog and confessed that I cannot outline a book I’d want to write. (I can outline a story that sucks … no problem there.) But I’m not really a pantster in the sense that I take off writing with no idea where I’m headed. I...
On Monday, Vicki Tremper posted a link to an article by LibbaBray that I really, really needed to read this week. If a rock star like Libba Bray can struggle so much with a book – and a sequel, at that – and if she finds outlining strategies and worksheets as...
Last week, I was feeling a little depressed. I had just turned in editorial revisions for THE EIGHTH DAY. The manuscript was off to the copy-editing department, and now I had to face my draft of THE EIGHTH DAY #2. And I couldn’t stand to look at it. The first...
Just so you know, I wanted to find a pictureof Brutus killing Caesar, as that seemed moreappropriate, but I couldn’t find a good one.We all have to do it at some point. Maybe it’s a realization you’ve come to on your own, or something your critique partners have...
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of participating in a Creativity Retreat with Susan Kaye Quinn, Rebecca Carlson, and Adam Heine. This retreat was held online via Google Hangout, which is pretty amazing when you consider I’m on the U.S. East Coast, Sue’s in the...
