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Category: writing
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Writing, Communication, and Administrivia
I’m up at the Mad Genius Club with the story of a mislectorist, Look, something a certain author needs to grasp is that although you may like your writing style, and the book is (traditionally, indies don’t have this limitation) published so you can’t change it, that doesn’t mean that readers haveto buy it or…
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Morning Miscellany
My post is up at MGC this morning: I wanted to write this post for a couple of reasons. One, to counter the claim I saw recently that crowdfunding is necessary to create a debut novel, because you need money to write. Note that the claim here is not: I need money for editing, formatting,…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Writing under Duress
Despite being on vacation the last few weeks, writing has not come easily. Finally, in desperation, I asked my writing group if they’d be interested in doing a writing challenge to help me with accountability. Fortunately, I’m not the only one struggling and they were open to playing along. So now I’m doing 500 words…
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Jade Star: Snippet 2
The second snippet from my WIP. You can find the first one here, from earlier this week. Slow progress, I guess I’m still in vacation mode. Need to get my head straight. Jade Star As I said, though, hard to be angry with them when it was clear they were pleased as anything over their…
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Breaking the Block: Jade Star Snippet 1
I’m sitting here this morning contemplating what I want to write about. Really, I want to go write fiction. Yesterday in the early evening, while digging through old files looking for stories to include in the collection I’m compiling, I found a scrap I’d forgotten I’d written. Since I have in mind to create some…
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An Unusual Review: Solutrean Atlantis
As is my normal custom, I purchased this book with the intention of reading for review. I acquired Solutrean Atlantis: Chapters 1-8: Sample Chapters from Amazon, an estimated 77 pages for the sum of $2.99. I will admit freely that I acquired a copy of the book knowing that there were problems, and it was and…
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Dashing out the Door
I’ll leave you all a link to MGC and the Visual Art article. And one to a book review of a book that made me blink and use unladylike words. And of course, this article about books people WANT to read, and why, goes with the above.
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Free Story: Girl Talk
One of these days… maybe this coming month, since I have been living at a flat run this last 6-7 weeks, I will compile and publish a collection of short stories and flash fiction. For years I thought I couldn’t write anything longer than a short, so I have probably a dozen rattling around in…
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How to Win as Writer
Read the whole thing at Mad Genius Club… We live in a society – or most of us do, since I’m sure there are a few readers who hail from distant shores that aren’t the US of A – which fosters the idea that everyone will win. Whatever the game is. From reading contests at…
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Distress, Disruption, and the Artist
Pat Patterson asked this question elsewhere, and it got me thinking. “Authors and other artists: When things are really going poorly for you, how does that show up in your work? What about when things are going well?” My immediate answer to this was ‘when I’m sick, I can’t work’ which is entirely true, but…
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Zucchini-Apple Bread
I’ve done many variations over the years on zucchini bread. It’s a sweet bread, almost a cake. Dense, moist, rich… and a great way to use up some of those squash before they stage an invasion. I’ve blended grated carrots and zucchini, used the yellow summer squash rather than the green, thrown in a handful…