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It's that time of year again. I don't do resolutions, but I do like to set goals for the new year. Here are my 2019 writing goals: Finish Dreadful Penny 1972 Start Dreadful Penny 1973 Audiobooks for the Daughters of Shadow & Blood novels Audiobooks for the Dreadful Penny novellas At least one new Serbian... Continue Reading →
So here's how I did on my writing goals for 2017: Publish Daughters of Shadow and Blood - Book III Audiobooks for Yasamin and Elena Edit YA alternate history fantasy novel Write at least two novellas in a new Southern Gothic series New Serbian Bureau of Strange Occurrences short stories (or maybe a novella) New... Continue Reading →
If you’ve dreamed of writing your own novel(s) but haven’t yet written anything besides the first two chapters—and trust me, I’ve been there—you’re probably wondering how I got it all done, in addition to my everyday workload and all of the other stuff that goes into a life. Aside from finding consistent time to write... Continue Reading →
Do you write chronologically? Or are you prone to writing whatever scene strikes your fancy? Do you skip around, hop ahead, circle back? Or are you inclined to move from scene 1 to scene 2 to 3 and beyond? Courtesy of Tor.com. This is me. Everything is chaos until it's not.
As we look forward to another year I thought I'd share some of my writing goals for 2017: Publish Daughters of Shadow and Blood - Book III (duh) Audiobooks for Yasamin and Elena Edit YA alternate history fantasy novel Write at least two novellas in a new Southern Gothic series New Serbian Bureau of Strange... Continue Reading →
Contrary to our romanticized notions, writers don’t just sit around all day, drink coffee and Scotch, and wait for inspiration to strike. Like any other job, they have to be disciplined and productive. While that does involve lots of coffee, it also requires hard work. Here’s how some famous authors have kept their nose to... Continue Reading →
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer rocked our world, and it remains one of the all-time greatest TV shows. The story of a fated vampire-hunter who tries to live a normal life in high school, Buffy still has few worthy successors. And it has so much to teach us about good writing. Courtesy of io9.
In 1954 - more than half a century before Twilight or the Vampire Diaries became popular - hundreds of primary schoolchildren from Glasgow swamped the city’s Southern Necropolis cemetery, searching out a ‘Vampire with iron teeth’ which they blamed for killing and eating two young boys. Courtesy of The Scotsman
There’s no magic bullet for being a decent writer, or making people bond with your characters or fall in love with your story. Writing is a million different skills and challenges, and each story is different. But the more I struggle to make this work, the more I think there’s one key thing that makes... Continue Reading →
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