How to Schedule a Death drops in 3 days. It’s the darkest book I’ve ever written. It’s also the first book I’ve ever written for an adult audience. Today I’m opening up all my old writing notebooks, blog posts, documents, and file folders. I’m scouring my notes for anything even remotely related to the project. ... Continue Reading →
Book Review Etiquette
I did a post once about things authors do that are red flags to reviewers. But something I didn’t mention in that post is the mistakes authors make AFTER contracting with a reviewer. An author sent you their book, you agreed to review it, that should be the end of the interaction. Except sometimes it’s... Continue Reading →
Apocalypse Project Issues
drafting is hard no matter how many stories you’ve written
NaNo Update – Final
Time to look back on how much longer and stronger those projects are and revel in what we accomplished.
NaNo2020-Getting Started
Let’s check in on the start of my project and drop some tips for any of you participating as well.
NaNo2020-Planning Idea 2
But I also promised to come back and share my planning for the second possible project.
NaNo2020 Narrowing Ideas
It's time to start Narrowing Down our Ideas.
NaNo2020-Ideas
Today, I wanted to check in on how that process is going for me and give you some places where you can get some more ideas if you think your list is too short.
Connecting to Character
It's a pretty common question for writers: what do you create first when starting a story?
Diversity, Companion Post
Today a video dropped on my YouTube channel that talks about diversity in reading and writing. Here’s a few things you should know about that video.