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, [...]
It’s been a while since I wrote my weekly status update. I have excuses for this abandonment: part-time job, freelance writing gig, revisions, etc. But I’m going to try to keep this [...]
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 [...]
Thrilled to announce that my friend, collaborator, and client (I’m going for an EGOT of friendship levels, clearly) Jennie Wood’s debut Young Adult novel has been nominated as a [...]
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 [...]
I told my girlfriend that The Walking Dead is back on Sunday. She muttered, yeah. This is not the kind of show we get amped for, like The Americans, The Fall, Justified, The Killing, or our [...]
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 [...]
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