The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
445 words tonight. That’s better than I’ve done so far this week. But still pathetic. My Dell is still in Texas. Darn Texas, it’s just so huge! Friends have expressed concern about my buying a Dell. I know two people who have had very bad experiences with Dell. But against them, I put a whole […]
Eeeee!!! I just figured out how and why Keen becomes who I plan him to be next book…and it all makes sense, AND I already wrote the background! Eeee!!! Unfortunately, figuring that stuff out is all I had time for tonight. By the time I’d recovered from work, anyway. (800 kids + 80 staff +
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I went to bed at 10. At something like two I woke up with a scene nagging at me. I worked it out in my head, figuring I’d write it in the morning…but after two hours I got up and wrote it down. So at a quarter after five, I was allowed to go back
Who’d’a thunk a drink was all I needed? But it worked. After all day trying (around a horrific amount of other things needing done) to write and getting nowhere–I just poured most of my only bottle of booze into a big glass, added a little mixer (Dos Santos coffee liqueur, if you must know, and
The hook I sent is here. I want to know more about Taro. Why is he such a slave to Eve? How is he bound by duty and gratitude? It’s the answers to those questions that say a lot about who the characters are, what drives them, so this is important information and you shouldn’t
I’m thinking about my series tonight. Now, before I get published, is the time to make any big changes I feel necessary. Now if I could only decide what’s necessary… One of my characters is a telepath. (Yes, it’s Eve.) It’s not a big asset to her because the ability is not under her conscious
Yeah, guess what I’ve been doing all day? All right, so here’s the almost-completely re-worked hook. Tell me what you think. New hook. And here, on Miss Snark’s blog, is the old hook , with comments. What do you think?