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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…

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…

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…

How To Be A Good Critique Partner (reprint)

Critique groups abound, especially as NaNoWriMo wraps up. The crisp, cold weather of winter combined with the frenzy of writing a novel in a month spawns writing groups like there is no tomorrow. New writing groups are wonderful, but not all critique partners are created equal. The horror stories about…

I’m Alive! And writing over at Unbound Worlds…

You may have noticed that blog posts have been a little thin on the ground lately. That’s because 1) it was spring break last week and I was AFK (away from keyboard) a lot and 2) because I’ve been using my blogging time to write cage matches for Unbound…

Writing Realistic Romantic Relationships

There are a couple of hard and fast rules for writing romance genre that you need to keep in mind if you want to write category Romance. Anything market as Romance must have a Happily Ever After/Happy For Now ending. Anything less than that, and you will eaten alive by…

Plotting Beat Sheet

Plotting Session 1: Structure Plotting Session 2: Beat Sheets Plotting Session 3: The Epic Plotting Video During the epic plotting video where Amy Laurens and I fixed her Very Broken Novel™ I showed you the beat sheet I made Amy fill out before we replotted her book. This isn’t a…