Category: wip it
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Too Busy Writing! And a Quirky Idea
Clearly there was an uptick in blog posting earlier this year. Three times in as many months! In an age where blog posting is effectively dead if you don’t have a platform (or if it isn’t your primary focus), we’ll call that a surprising increase in activity. And then…NOTHING! Until today. The cool thing is,…
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In Between Times
I always take a little break between manuscripts. I consider it a “voice reset.” I used to be so jazzed I would immediately roll into a new project, but I found the voice of the next project sounded exactly the same as the one I had just finished. It inevitably led to a lot of…
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2013: A Singular Endeavor
I don’t normally do a year in review because my pursuit of publication has been an ongoing effort for over four years now and that story has only changed somewhat. Write a novel -> query, write a novel -> query, start new year, repeat. That was 2009 through 2011. Then came 2012, the year of…
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Sex Scenes and Sexuality
I have, in my time, both acted as and utilized beta readers. With that, I’ve found that different authors have different policies in how they treat their beta readers. I have rules on how I deal with them. They are unpaid volunteers that are doing me a great service without any promise of return. I…
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Inspiration Strikes Like LIghtning
It’s not a good idea to wait on inspiration, but when it strikes, you grab that shit and hold on. It can be a winning lottery ticket, and if you tell it to wait until later, you might never get to scratch off those numbers and hit the big score. /simile I was leaving work…
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Damn You Robbie Coltrane!
Aside from the theme song, I don’t think there’s a line I identify more with the Harry Potter franchise than Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid saying “You’re a wizard, Harry!” It was used in so much promotional content. I heard it over and over again. And it’s a great line. I tells a new audience to…