J. R. FRONTERA, author

Rebel stories for rebel souls...

Lessons from Nora Roberts: From Lovers and Labels to Dialogue and Description…

I have a confession: I have never been into romance books.I read one in college at the bequest of my roommate and while I did actually enjoy it, and it was a well-written and engaging (while generally cliché) story, I just never bothered to pick up any more afterward.  I don't even remember the name of the book or author now.I am almost exclusively a sci-fi and fantasy girl.  Sometimes a literary fiction, sometimes a non-fiction.  But mostly just sci-fi and fantasy, whether adult or young ... View Post

Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Chase the Sun", a poem.

On a 5:50am flight this morning, we had the pleasure of rising above the clouds just in time for the sunrise, which was particularly spectacular from our vantage point and the cover of clouds below.  I was unable to get a picture of it, so I wrote a poem instead.  Here is my attempt at capturing the amazingness of this experience.... *** a horizon of lavender clouds brushes a blushing dawn a sky colored with sherberts stretching into a clear, hard blue the color of Caribbean waves the ... View Post

Writing Prompt Wednesday: Excerpt from "The Good Thing"

Unfortunately, I'm so behind in my Camp NaNoWriMo word count for this contest entry novel that I can't afford to spend any time or words on anything outside of that project.  So for this week's Wednesday post, I have elected to share a small excerpt from that project.  The image here is model Sean O'Pry, my inspiration for the character Pavel Sokolov, who features in this excerpt.  This is a very rough draft, but I hope you enjoy!  :)   ***   “Oh look,” Vince said, his tone ... View Post

Project List for July 2013

Behind on posting this month, for two reasons.  1) I've entered a writing contest which consumes every free moment, details on the list below and 2) We lost our kitty of ten years very unexpectedly last Sunday, so I am still reeling from that.  There's a post dedicated to her in me somewhere, but I haven't managed to dig it out yet.  In the meantime, I'm going to stick to the cut and dry bulleted list, and will resume normal posting next month, or whenever I get my brain back together... ... View Post

Surviving NaNoWriMo: Tips and Tricks to Come Out of It Alive, If Slightly Less Sane

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, officially appointed to November, likely because NOVember begins much like NOVel.  Cute.  No one happened to think that November was a positively awful month to hold such a national event, namely because of the approaching holidays and the whole traveling and planning and stressing and food-comas and seeing-extended-family bits.  But despite all of this, November remains National Novel Writing Month and despite all of this, every year hundreds ... View Post

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for June 2013

Running just a little behind this month!  Blame a looming fiction contest deadline!  O_o  But we'll get to that in a minute.  First, let me see if I can get all this sorted out! Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”!  This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing ... View Post

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