While editing, many writers find themselves stuck. The words have been jumbled about, commas have been added, but the prose is still missing something. You’ve tried adding description, adding background information, taking out some dialogue, but it’s still not working quite right. If you’ve reached this point, take a breath, relax, and read on. Don’t… Continue reading The Power of Rewriting
I’ll probably take a break from these this month because of Camp NaNo and schoolwork, but here’s one since I finished a book this week. This is the meme hosted by samannelizabeth. Three W’s: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? What I’m Reading:… Continue reading WWW Wednesday, April 6 2016
I made a post back in January about my Quartlerly goals for January-March. Now it’s time to see what my next quarterly goals are and what I accomplished last quarter! Writing/Editing Goals: Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo Finishing writing draft 1 of new fantasy novel Get Masked Book 1 ready for beta readers Edit Masked Book 2 into… Continue reading Quarterly Goals (April-June)
I was tagged by CEL Stefani! Sorry this took so long for me to post. These questions involved a lot of thought, and it’s been a busy month. Anyways, time for the answers! 1. What’s your biggest fear? Being excluded or ignored. I like connecting with people, so sometimes I get scared the group will cut… Continue reading Baring Your Soul
Another busy week, but I managed to start and finish one whole book! So here’s the weekly book meme hosted by samannelizabeth. Three W’s: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? What I’m Reading: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Started reading this, and… Continue reading WWW Wednesday, March 30 2016
Weekly book meme hosted by samannelizabeth! I’ve had quite a busy month, so this meme has been the only constant update on my blog. I’m hoping to start regular posts again soon with writing prompts, editing/writing tips, and another progress update on my novel. I’ve also got three or four tags sitting around that I… Continue reading WWW Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Time for the weekly book meme hosted by samannelizabeth! Three W’s: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? What I’m Reading: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss I started on this lovely book, and so far it is not disappointing! I am… Continue reading WWW Wednesday, March 16 2016
I missed doing this last week. It was a really rough week for me, but I’m happy to report that I’m feeling much better! I’ve gotten a lot more reading done this week, even finished beta reading Sarina Langer‘s novel, which was quite a joy to read. 🙂 And now time for the reading meme… Continue reading WWW Wednesday March 9, 2016
This post is different than my other posts. Here I am just pouring out my current feelings because I am really frustrated with my fantasy novel, Masked. I wrote this book and its sequel during NaNoWriMo in November. I took about two weeks off before I started editing. The beginning of my edits went relatively smooth–or perhaps… Continue reading A Time for Every Story…
Whether you want to focus your writing or you have a target word count to get down to, tightening your prose can strengthen your writing. For me, I have a 115K YA fantasy draft (Masked) that I am trying to get down to the 90K-110K range. Rather than cutting out whole scenes, I have been exploring… Continue reading Tips to Tighten Prose (And Reduce Word Count)
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