Category: Writing
(WARNING: This is a detailed look at the nuts and bolts of writing this novella. If you don’t want any plot spoilers, please avoid reading until you finish the book. Also – writing neepery ahead!) My latest novella, Devon’s Blade…
This week I’ve been cruising along on chapter 3 but have only written a few scenes. Some of these scenes are but skeletons that will be fleshed out in the second draft when I start to make connections to later…
Those of you who regularly come to this blog are probably already aware that I have a monthly newsletter called Dispatches. I’ve been mentioning it more regularly in my social media these days. There is a reason for this. I’m…
This week I wrapped up chapter 2 and realized that it too needs some fixing. But rather than stop and fix it, I’ll keep pushing on into chapter 3. Chapter 2 is where we are introduced to the villain –…
I didn’t get much writing done this week, maybe a couple thousand words all week. Part of that was due to real life interrupts and part of it was due to me having to mull over my villain a bit…
I didn’t get to write every day this week as I kept a few lunch dates with coworkers. Sometimes the writing that I did get to do went smoothly and sometimes I struggled to imagine the scene I was writing,…
