At the beginning of August, I made a decision regarding the next book in Spectrum Legacy. At the time, I had written about 45,000 words for Paragon of Shadow after working on it since Paragon of Light came out. I previously shared the fruit of my 15-day personal writing challenge,… Read the rest...
Category: Writing
Over the past couple months, I’ve had multiple people ask how I do the outlining for my books. Rather than trying to explain in words, I figured it would help to show them my index card method.
Despite it being a popular method for a lot of writers to use… Read the rest...
At this month’s writer meeting, we spent a lot of time discussing short story structure. Building off of that, we did two prompts instead of just one. The first prompt used a three-sentence structure, explaining what each part of this tiny bit of flash fiction should do.
First sentence: Establishes… Read the rest...
So it’s finally time to talk about this one–the next book heading out for edits, while I sort out all my notes for book 5 of Spectrum Legacy.
Coming this summer: The Witch and the Wyrm!
The Witch and the Wyrm is a stand-alone fantasy romance story, and I’ll… Read the rest...
This month at my local writer’s group meeting, our writing exercise involved story cubes! It was my first time getting to attend in a few months due to health, and I was super excited to be able to attend. We always do some sort of writing exercise, and this time,… Read the rest...
I sat down for a long day of writing on the 25th. It was my first day writing after a week of being terribly sick, so I didn’t have high expectations, but my husband had given me the whole Saturday to myself (in exchange for a Saturday he took for… Read the rest...
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak before a group of writers and share what I knew about something I do here pretty often–blending writing with other hobbies to help connect with people who share similar interests.
One thing I was tasked with was coming up with a writing… Read the rest...