Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Having no idea whatsoever how long it might take to rewrite Legend’s Heir (working title), and needing a writing project other than blogging (so that I wouldn’t go crazy), I sat down this past weekend and started rewriting what I am now referring to as The Monster Epic Fantasy Novel (MEFaN) — thereby proving that I have gone crazy.
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Consortium Books, Drafts, Epic, Fantasy, Kindle Publishing, Legend's Heir, Pepe Le Pew, Prewriting, Rewriting, Scene List, SNL, The Office, The Princess Bride, Triad
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tweet Greetings, my dearest inklings! I come to you today, having officially launched my novel Colors of Deception into the great wide world — and having fried my brain in the process. The result of said frying is that I have no WILAWriTWe to share with you today. Aaron doesn’t know this yet, so I […]
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
That darkness inside me…dare I call it simple humannness? Isn’t it nothing more than the gritty frailty within every human heart? If each of us were honest with ourselves, wouldn’t we admit that we all harbor a streak of that inner moonlight? Don’t we all harbor a streak of madness?
When Aaron first approached me about painting the cover for his fantasy novel Taming Fire, I was skeptical. “I paint for fun,” I explained. “I’ve never undertaken a painting project so ambitious…”
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
There are some things about which I cannot be perfectionist. Not because I don’t want to be. But because I simply can’t. The situation is so far beyond my control, there is no possibility at all of my getting my perfectionist way about it. One of these things is my hair…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Beta readers, Code, Colors of Deception, Control, Editing, Grammar Rules, Kindle, Perfectionism, Pixie cut, Proofing, Punctuation, Spelling
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Two days ago, I sat with Becca in Aaron’s living room and bewailed to them the fact that I hadn’t yet decided on a topic for this week’s WILAWriTWe. Two days later, dear inklings, I must admit to you: I still got nothin’. But I showed up to write, anyway…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Becca J. Campbell, Beta readers, Black Sun Rising, Brainstorming, C.S. Friedman, Colors of Deception, Cover art, Douglas Adams, Inspirations, Julie Velez, Reading, Saltmarch, Twitter, Work-in-progress, Write What You Know
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Two days ago, Becca and I made a trip to the salt plains of Oklahoma to scout out likely locations for my cover art photoshoot.
It was an adventure, and we found some likely spots, but I won’t regale you with that tale. Right now, the adventure is beside the point. The point, my dear inklings, is that now my worries have set in…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Becca J. Campbell, Carlos Velez, Colors of Deception, Cover art, CreateSpace, Creative Writing, Editing, Fear, Great Salt Plains, Indie publishing, Julie Velez, Kindle, Publication, Saltmarch, The Pool, The Writing Life, Turner Falls
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tweet Ohhhh, my dear inklings. I did a scary, scary thing. I let go of my baby, my precious, my sweet toddling kiddo. I sent my tender little one out into the world, went back into the comfort of my home, and closed the door. And then, I sat back and waited in agony. What […]
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
When we writers mention “social writing,” what we think we mean is getting together to encourage each other and spend several hours working on our projects in the same location, one which most likely involves food and copious amounts of coffee. But “social writing” consists of far more than that…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Coffee, Epic, Fantasy, Ghost Targets: Expectation, Jessie Sanders, Joshua Unruh, JT Hackett, Mashup novels, Polish pottery, Roadrunner cartoons, Social Writing, The Consortium, Thomas Beard, trib, Weird Western, Wile E. Coyote, Writer's Tribe
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
If you peruse the articles in which Aaron and I reference Stephenie Meyer, you might pick up on the fact that neither of us are necessarily favorably disposed toward her writing. Neither of us, however, has gone into much detail on the basis of our opinion. I, for my part, am about to change that.
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Also tagged Bella Swan, Breaking Dawn, Character Development, Dialogue Tags, Edward Cullen, Sentence Fragments, Star Trek, Stephenie Meyer, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The Writing Life, Twilight, Vampires, Worldbuilding
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