Liana Brooks – Page 17

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Know When It’s Time To Walk Away

I’ve always been a big believer in writing regularly. Good habits are hard to make, and keeping a regular writing schedule helps an author in the long run. However, as the years have passed, I’ve veered away from the Write Every Day! camp towards the idea of Think Every Day….

Serious Vs Silly

Winter is coming. Not the good-fun winter with Jon Snow saving the day and Sansa coming home to Winterfell. No, the real winter is coming, with familial obligations, cold weather, and seasonal depression. Some people have claustrophobia and hate the feeling of the walls closing in around them. Cold weather…

72-Hour Checklist

This is a very basic checklist for a simple 72-Hour Kit (sometimes called a Bug Out Bag). It has supplies to last your for three days, which is the estimated time needed for relief organizations to arrive in your area and start handing out food and water after a major…

Change Of Momentum News!

In case you were curious how much gets cut or rewritten from a novel… … my Cut Scene file for #ChangeOfMomentum is at 10k right now. The final novel will probably be 90k. The cut scenes are things I rewrote from a different POV, parts of scenes that…

Occasionally Eric

Many, many years ago, when the internet was young, I was a fourteen-year-old sitting in a quiet house in the windswept plains of Wyoming. It was time for the annual court-appointed visit to my father’s house. He was elsewhere. Maybe working. Maybe sleeping. Maybe drunk. My much-younger siblings were in…

Draft By Draft – How Books Get Written

One of the first lessons a novelist learns is that writing a book is not like writing an essay in school. The dynamics are different. The time factors are different. The end results are different. The drafts are different. With an essay it’s common to finish a full draft of…

Moving On, Letting Go, And Stepping Forward

2018 has been an interesting year for me. To say it didn’t quite go as planned is an understatement. In January I had some really big plans and a really tight schedule planned out. There was so much I wanted to do that by March I felt burnt out and…

Morning Pages

Years ago when I first published a book and broke the news to my family that their child was –gasp!- a writer my father asked if I did morning pages. If you have followed my family’s shenanigans online you know this is 100% a normal response to finding out your…

A Sound Too Bright

Sometimes the world is a little too loud, a little too bright, a little too overwhelming. So here’s to everyone who enjoys the silence.

Lady of the Lake – Chapter 1 (Part 2)

Description Chapter 1 – Part 1 THEN A curl of raven hair lay between the blades of new spring grass like a serpent. Despair crashed over me like an ocean wave as I reached for Eithne’s hand only to find it cold. “Lady.” A knight’s voice penetrated my sorrow. It…