In a recent post, John Fox, of the BookFox blog, wrote about the challenges of self-editing. His very first bit of advice is to isolate the various elements of your […]
Writing
NaNoWriMo 2016
I’ve never done NaNoWriMo. At least, not really. And I’ve been losing sleep over whether I should join up for NaNoWriMo 2016. Previous NaNoWriMo Fails The main reason I’ve never […]
7 Years of Blogging
This week marks 7 years of blogging! I can hardly believe it. Back when I started blogging, I was a grad student working on my first novel about an ostrich […]
The Elevator Pitch
In the time since I started my novel, I have honed my elevator pitch. After eight years working on it, I thought I was getting pretty good at it. Every […]
Deciding Where to Put Chapter Breaks
With just a month to go before I finish what I expect will be the last draft of my novel, I’m starting to think about where to put my chapter […]
My Time at Write on the Sound 2016
I just got back from attending the Write on the Sound 2016 conference, about 15 miles north of Seattle in Edmonds. I will admit to being a little skeptical. My […]
Write on the Sound
I am super excited to report that tomorrow morning, bright and early, I am hopping on a plane to the great northwest for the Write on the Sound conference just […]