What do you do when life suddenly raises the difficulty level of writing your book from 3 to 10? Well if you’re me… you get terribly sick and make lists… so many lists. Recently I had a manuscript appraisal completed… there was nothing said that I didn’t expect, nonetheless, it was hard to hear. It […]
Do you get caught with your pants down?
Hey, everyone! Today I wanted to talk all about pantsing vs plotting, how it’s really a spectrum and where I fit into it all. Plus I’m going to share what worked (and really didn’t) for me with Hybrid and Broken. I first spoke about this in my podcast entitled plotting vs pantsing. Click the link […]
Women
It was International Women’s Day last week and I thought it would be fun to celebrate women by sharing who has inspired me, some of my ideas about strong female characters, “perfection”, and a few little tidbits about my two main girls, Gryphon (Hybrid) and Ibbiana (Wings). Writing strong women is crucial, as is writing […]
Worldbuilding
So recently I uploaded a podcast talking about how I worldbuild and the differences between my methods for my first book – Hybrid, vs the book idea that came after – Wings. Which can be summarised by saying that I did almost no building ahead of time for Hybrid and discovered everything as I wrote. […]
Researching
So in line with my inspiration post the other day I wanted to talk about how I research a storyline, concepts and eventually begin to worldbuild. As you can probably guess, my first recommendation for research sparks is Pinterest. Now hold on.. before you judge me for my obsession with pinning pictures I like onto […]
Inspiration
Since my last post, I’ve been thinking about inspiration and where I get mine from. Whether you refer to it as talking to your muses, being struck by inspiration, or driven mad by the voices in your head, inspiration is an elusive mistress who, if you don’t tend to and care for her, will evade […]