Out of the Blue it Feels Real
I finished the rewrite of my novel's ending on Friday. I'm still in the midst of getting suggestions and edits from my critique partner, but with the new ending, I wanted to take a minute and read through the whole…
Two Questions From My WIP
So as I'm working through edits on Wisdom to Know (you can read the blurb under Books if you're so inclined), I've gotten two comments from my Critique Partner that left me scratching my head. So...am I the weird one,…
“Drive”, he said.*
There's a rather long (and it seems to be a teeny bit heated in some cases, honestly) discussion on the ACFW main loop right now about the use of tags in dialog. (Tags, for those not up on their writing…
On Being Social
Oh social media...how I have really mixed feelings about you. One of the things that new writers continuously hear is how you have to market yourself and get plugged in via social media. There's Facebook: Do I have an author…
My Inner Editor
When I sat down at the start of November last year and decided that this year, finally, I was going to well and truly finish a novel (I have several novels in various states of unfinished heaped on my hard…
Writing from the Heart
So, you remember how I was going to try and re-write my novel, starting further along in the story? Funny thing...I played with it for several days. I tweaked here. I tweaked there. I added and subtracted and all other…
Writing and the Private Soul
In the year 2000 (that sounds like one of those ominous sci-fi prologues, doesn't it?), when my husband and I realized that adding kids to our family was going to have to take a different route than is traditional, we…
The Issue of Issues
I've been chatting with some folks in the past week about Christian fiction and some of the limitations we're seeing in what CBA (that's Christian Booksellers Association, if you're not aware) publishers will and won't allow within manuscripts they'll consider…
Encouraging(?) Thoughts
Things they tell you at writer's conferences to encourage you (or at least make you realize that you have to be half crazy and incredibly persistent to actually want to be a writer): Most novels sell fewer than 1,000 copies…
Re-Visioning
I'm reasonably certain that I don't need to visit any amusement parks this summer - this writer's conference has been enough of a roller coaster to last me quite a while. I suspected that it might be, but, to steal…