Comparing Drafts: Covenant
Just putting this here because I always think it’s interesting to watch a story evolve in editing: Draft 1: The ball room was engorged with luxuriant pageantry. Wealth, pettiness and…
Just putting this here because I always think it’s interesting to watch a story evolve in editing: Draft 1: The ball room was engorged with luxuriant pageantry. Wealth, pettiness and…
I’ve spent the last couple of years chronically dissatisfied with my writing style. I knew it was shifting and I kept poking around, trying to get a handle on how…
Challenge #11 In your own space, Talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to…
Hmmmm I have had a moment of unwelcome self-awareness about my writing. This epiphany was that one of my driving motivations is the satisfaction and accomplished feeling of having finished…
I am a 41 year old mostly-woman (she? they? it’s a journey), and I am finally beginning to acquire patience. Here’s the thing about patience, which I am learning as…
I’m coming to realize that writing is a reward/punishment thing for me. The more rewards I get (in the form of a happy-brain-chemicals spike for finishing a story, solving a…
fictionwritingtips: Let me start out by defining a few things: Pantsers These types of writers generally plan out very little before diving into their novels. They might have some ideas,…
fictionwritingtips: Let me start out by defining a few things: Pantsers These types of writers generally plan out very little before diving into their novels. They might have some ideas,…
redvsbluemicrofic: prettyarbitrary: redvsbluemicrofic: One day I want to sit down with my favourite writers and give them lots of alcohol and be like “this is going to be a fucked…
redvsbluemicrofic: One day I want to sit down with my favourite writers and give them lots of alcohol and be like “this is going to be a fucked up conversation,…