It's come to my attention that I have a problem. With the 3 Act Structure. Not with the 3 Act Structure itself. Not even with it as applied to other things, like movies and plays and other books. (The hubby and I regularly whisper "Act 2" and "Act 3" to ourselves during almost every movie we watch, it's like habit now. I blame film class.) No, I have a problem with it when trying to apply it to my own novels. I have read James Scott Bell's "Plot and Structure" book, and highly ... View Post
What’s Behind the Curtain: My 1st Time as a Panelist at a SF/F Convention!
This week it was my turn to post over on our blog at Wordwraiths.com. Since the month of May 2016 marked a huge step for me in regards to my author career, in that it was the very first time I spoke as a panelist at one of the science fiction and fantasy conventions I love so much, I decided to write about that experience: May 2016 was a big deal for me in terms of my author career. It marked the very first time I would sit in front of a room of people and pretend I knew ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for May 2016: Conventions! Panels! Stories in bags! Oh my!
And so comes the time to pay the piper ... to take stock of what has been accomplished (or not) in the past month! Here is the to-do from May's Project List, appropriately marked up according to what has or has not been completed! Print more business cards in prep for con season Mentally prep for my ConQuesT panels and reading Order giveaway materials for ConQuesT Compile NaNoWriMo packets and sign up sheet to offer at ConQuesT Have Kevin reformat DREAMERS to make it super ... View Post
Project List for May 2016…and an Anniversary!
I know it's the 19th already okay!?!??! Don't remind me! So yes, I'm rather late getting this Project List up. But never you fear, just because I was late in posting it doesn't mean I've been lazy about working on it. Oh no. In fact, the reason I'm so late posting it is because I've been so busy working on it! And I've been feeling a heavy resistance to posting it. I'm not sure why. Maybe I didn't want to actually list it all out because it seems too overwhelming when I put it all ... View Post
Writing Goals: Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for April 2016
I absolutely cannot believe it's already May of 2016. I just cannot get my head around that at all. Alas, time marches on and waits for no (wo)man. Which writing goals did I accomplish in April 2016? Let's find out! Part of the reason I don't remember much of April is because I managed to edit a total of 51,456 words in those 30 days. YOWZA! Granted, almost all of those words were for an editing client, but they are still words. I also managed to make pretty good progress on edits to ... View Post
Writing Goals: Project List for April 2016
Camp NaNoWriMo has launched this month! And other writerly things ... It's been awhile since I've done one of these, too, so I've promised myself to get better at posting these again as well. This kind of stuff helps me stay on-task! As some of you might know, April is Camp NaNoWriMo ... which is a National-Novel-Writing-Month type event held when it's not actually National Novel Writing Month (because we're writers and we really like to torture ourselves!). In any event, Camp is a bit ... View Post
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