Sorry that my posts have had the timing off and haven’t been as numerous these last few days.  I just started a new job yesterday and had...

This is an excerpt from the second book in my Gods series, The Gods Appeal.  In it, Cassandra’s thrust into a vision walk to test her...

The rain twirled up behind Chet in another weird whirlpool and I grabbed my necklace.  No way… nuh uh.  It was the wind, it happened,...

I hit 30K words for July tonight AND I wrote 11K words this weekend!  11K words in about 50 hours, along with normal weekend chores and...

I’m doing a big writing marathon day to catch up on my CampNano word goal (at 4250/6600 now, so going strong!) so don’t have time to do a...

Don’t mess with Kung Fu Kitty.  Photo by Oleg Volk. “Evie!  Get your skinny ass out here,” Chet yelled and pounded on the door, making...

This is my inner editor, her name’s Illisa, The Corrector Kitty.  Along with her friends, Flights of Fancy, Plot Bunny, Grammar Monkey,...

I’m doing something a little different today.  This post isn’t on the craft of writing, it’s on the publishing side of things.  More...

Last week I talked about the plot fixer, now we’re tackling the weak character.  I don’t mean someone who is weak themselves, I mean...

I’ve had a cold this week, pretty bad the past two days, and thus, have been basically useless.  Even stayed home from work.  And...

I’m doing CampNano and so far, it’s not going great.  My word goal was 65K, then I bumped it down to 50K, and I’m about 9K behind where...

Camp Nano starts today and thousands of us are rearing up to write, write, write! Whooooooooo! My word goal is 65K (Yes, I know i’m...

One week till CampNano and I simply must start a new story. CampNano starts April 1st and, much like Nanowrimo in November, it’s a race...

CampNano starts in one week!!! Head explodes and I suck it up and prep anyway 🙂 Here’s a Pep Talk from one of my favorite authors, a...

Hey guys, for the writing tips and tricks today, I’ve dragged up one of my favorite pep talks from Nanowrimo last November.  This doesn’t...

In this post, we’re going to play a game.  It’s kind of 20 questions, I never, er… other question games that are fun with drinking. You...

Beginnings can be tricky.  Trickier still for the novice novelist.  A common plot mistake we’ve all seen when critiquing new novelists...

Camp Nano is sort of an extension of Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) and it’s done in April and July.  Basically you are doing...