I was talking to a friend the other day, complaining about a fact I needed to check for my WIP and trying to decide how to dig out the information. She said, “Why do you care? Why don’t you just make it up?” I said something about fiction needing to be grounded in reality, but […]
Reading A Lot
March 4, 2012 by
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King, On Writing As always, I bow to Mr. King’s expert advice in his book On Writing. And I […]
Writing Through The Drama
February 16, 2012 by
It’s really hard for me to try to write when I’m feeling extremes of emotion. The emotion can be either end of the scale. If I’m feeling extremely happy or excited, I’m all jittery inside, or I just can’t make myself sit down at the computer. If I’m extremely upset or angry, then it’s […]
What’s In A Name?
January 17, 2012 by
I’ve been listening to the audio books of “The Bride Quartet” by Nora Roberts over the last couple of days. It’s been a long time since La Nora has written a series of straight-up contemporary romances without mystery, suspense, or woo-woo stuff, so I was listening to learn. I have various reactions to the books […]
On Reviews and Responses
January 10, 2012 by
Yet another broohaha in Romancelandia over reviews and the author’s response to said reviews has prompted me to examine my own responses to the reviews I’ve gotten on my book. I would prefer not to be stupid as I pick my way through the minefield which is publishing. Sometimes it’s hard to know the right […]
Go With The Flow
January 8, 2012 by
The other day, two of my characters decided to um, get busy with each other. I’m a romance author. Characters tend to get busy (*wink, wink*) in romance novels. But here’s the thing. I hadn’t planned for this to happen in the scene I was writing. I hadn’t really wanted it to happen in this […]
