My latest post at Dead Darlings is all about how I found my wonderful agent, Patricia Nelson of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. This is more a “how I found my agent” vs. “how to [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. Character profiles are great for first drafts. I fill out a ton of those for each character. I cast my characters with favorite TV and movie stars. I create [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings Most people in my writing circle know that I am a former project manager. “Former” because when you’re a project manager most coworkers think that you are evil, [...]
In celebration of Pride month, I wrote a post about writing gay characters. This is one of those posts I had hanging around for about a year or two because I couldn’t figure out how to say [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. Novel 1 revision is complete (for now). Novel 2 is cooling off in a drawer prior to revision. That leaves Novel 3, which I set aside last fall because I [...]
I’m going through an extraordinary period of rejection right now, for both jobs and writing-related projects. My friend told me, “I suspect you’ve been dancing with the [...]
My latest Dead Darlings blog post is now live: My Novel Incubator instructors loved to tell us to kill our characters. Most of us came into class with drafts bloated with characters who served no [...]
My latest Dead Darlings post is now live. This month, I’m digging into Scrivener, as it pertains to NaNoWriMo: I came to Scrivener the way I come to a lot of things: Oh. Fun. Want. When I [...]
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