I am 14 000 words in to the type in, right now. And I really like what I got so far. But I have also been thinking about the pacing. Why? Because a lot have happened. Too much. So far in this book I have: * One theft * One crazed werewolf * One werewolf/vampyre […]
I got a B-12 shot yesterday, which meant I had the energy to pick up the revision of The Brownie Liason. Discover to my dismay when I discovered that the edits I had made on chapter Four wasn’t saved. To say that I was pissed off is to put it mildly, so I decided to […]
Look what Lauren Dane just posted! I knew something was up from the hints they dropped on twitter. Squee! The only drawback is the release date: Feb 2014.The blurb: New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lauren Dane takes you into a brand new world in ALL THAT REMAINS. Summer Killian falls fast and hard […]
I played around with Unicorn brushes this afternoon and created this cover for a prequel short story to The Raven Mocker. I like it :). The cover would have my name, and etc. The brushes were created by darkonelh at DeviantArt.
The writing is chugging along pretty nicely. Or well my Scrivener trial expired, so right now I am revising the Brownie Liason. 🙂 So far I have edited 10 of 64 pages. So, progress! I am aiming at getting 5 pages edited per day, so this draft should take me a couple of weeks to […]
Awhile ago, Laura Anne Gilman jokingly said on Twitter she should rent out her nephew who majors in nanotechnology to Science Fiction writers. I smiled, and shook my head. But this morning it occurred to me: Why don’t I do something similar, but for biology? What I am thinking, is some sort of subscription series, […]
Last night, I had one of those moments were several previously unconnected pieces suddenly fit. And it all came from three lines. I knew from the beginning of the first draft that she would get an offer to stay in Korun. While writing the first draft, I also realised that one of my older ideas […]
A couple of days ago, I reached the point in the synopsis were I needed to re-read the first draft. I hesitated, but in the end I decided to write the beginning first. So. Yesterday, I started to write the beginning from scratch. This time, the opening is in the right place. Today, […]
Writing a synopsis is a part of my revision synopsis, since it allows me to figure out plot holes. But, I have struggled with the synopsis for Trollkungens dotter. And then yesterday, I had one of those lightbulb moments. While the partial draft are riddled with problems, it start in the right place. Which […]
So. Yesterday I took a look at the synopsis. And I was a bit appalled to discover that there were plot holes big enough to poke my head through. I knew that the end was missing when I started writing, but I had planned to reach the point were the first draft stops before I […]