I was recently nominated by the enchanting Alex of the blog Valourborn to join in the 777 challenge, and—what can I say?—I’m a sucker for anything inv…
It’s time for the delightful virtual cabins and bonfires of camp Nanowrimo! I’ve never participated in the official November version, but I find the s…
I had another lesson this week in why the outline means nothing when characters take over the story. It’s always initially scary, (“but…but… I already…
Well, it’s finally getting warmer (which is an odd statement considering there’s snow outside my window at the moment…) but that means I’m slowly reki…
I recently heard about Smartling and their new translation software, which got me thinking about the subject of putting books into other languages. It…
It has come to my attention (and probably should have a long time ago) that I am way too dependent on my computer. Seriously, when my computer breaks …
I’ve been waiting a long time to get back to the Dagger Trilogy (I know I’ve pined longingly in more that one blog post for this particular set of cha…
I’ll admit it: I’m addicted to drama. I was giving the Dagger Trilogy a full read-through before I dive into revisions, and a lot of the scenes just s…
I’ve been editing for a long time. The ‘typos, syntax, and grammar’ kind of editing. I normally don’t have a problem keeping the creative fire well-st…
Okay, so, I know I already chattered about second person once. (Here’s the original if anyone’s curious.) But then I read a great post by Andrew Knigh…