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by | Apr 24, 2014 | Faces of Blood, Fiction, Me, Original Fic, Stone Chronicles, Writing

I meant to try updating this every day, but I’ve missed a couple of days because we headed out for a quick trip to Las Vegas. I haven’t been back there for years–it was fun, though I’d have liked a bit more time. The highlight was the David...

Weekend

by | Apr 21, 2014 | Faces of Blood, Fiction, Freelancing, Stone Chronicles, Writing

Spent the weekend working on the new assignment. Having a lot of fun with it, though it’s taking longer than my own stuff (a lot longer) because I keep going back over it, second-guessing myself. (“Is it good enough? Is it exciting enough? Will people like...

Nervous but excited

by | Apr 18, 2014 | Fiction, Freelancing, Me, Writing

So I’ve got this new assignment to work on, and I’m super excited about it. I’m also super nervous. I’ve got some big shoes to fill, following in the wake of some extremely popular work that’s come before. My inner critic keeps telling...

Beginnings (finally!)

by | Apr 15, 2014 | Fiction, Source, Stone Chronicles, Writing

Inspired by yesterday’s post, I spent some time fleshing out the outline for The Source last night. I’ve known for a while that this one was going to need a solid outline before I could start it—more solid than I usually do. Like “here’s what...

Endings

by | Apr 14, 2014 | Fiction, Stone Chronicles, Writing

It’s always a weird time when I finish a writing project, especially a long one like a novel. I’m a pretty fast writer (usually!), so a 100,000-150,000 word novel takes me somewhere between two and six months to finish. While I’m writing, I’m...