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 […]
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 […]
When I started writing, I wrote in Swedish. I still have the unfinished draft, somewere on my laptop. But I was surrounded by people who wrote in english. So, I switched to English. Mainly because my ideas were in English. And, during the next 8-9 years I wrote. Some of it was utter […]
For me ideas comes in two shapes: The fully fledged ones and the “Someday I want to write this.” The fully fledged ideas are the ones were suddenly I have a character clamoring for me to write their story NOW. I have learned the hard way to write it down, and jot down the plot […]
So.. Last year I deleted my previous WordPress blog since I never posted there. Which I am regretting right now, since LJ is in death throes. :(. Hopefully I’ll be better about updating it than I was the last time around…. Here is to a new and brave 2013