I wrote the short story “Light Through Fog” for the collection The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance because I needed a live project to demonstrate my techniques in the How To Think Sideways course, and I had to have the pressure of writing something that was commissioned, had a hard (and very close) deadline, and that the editor could reject. … Continue reading →
My first writing crit video. … Continue reading →
So. I broke out my themes into elements, and when I started looking at the elements, I realized if I started playing them off against each other, I had this amazing list of conflicts. AMAZING. If you list all the good points about something like immortality, and then you list all the bad points, and do the same for mortality, … Continue reading →
Breaking out themes for dreaming the dead (figuring out what the critical elements of every theme are, and then breaking those down further into individual problems and issues), is going much much much faster than I’d anticipated. Yay Scrivener, and cheers for having a plan, and a good, solid workable Sentence. Thought you might like to see what this whole … Continue reading →
Big book. 300,000 words to do it right. Figure a good, rich scene runs 2500-3500 words on average. Say 3000 words for convenience’s sake. That’s 100 full scenes. So: First, I need to finish breaking out the issues and interactions and conflicts for each of my themes. Give myself a full 5-day week to work this out. Then, working from … Continue reading →
Bouncing around like a lunatic. I’m so happy. I FINALLY got the Sentence for Dreaming The Dead! An archeologist stumbles over a man who cannot exist and his key to immortality, and in doing so makes herself a target of the immortals bent on hiding the secret. The Sentence, incidentally, is the key to writing the whole damn book, and … Continue reading →
I have a novel I want to write. I have this really cool new course I want to create. I have these awesome videos I want to do for http://writercrashtests.com I want to get Rebel Tales up and running. And I have a notebook full to overflowing with other ideas—more novels, more courses, more freebies. And even though I’ve burned … Continue reading →
Due to a number of questions via various channels, I’ve updated the Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines. I’ve done a lot of clarification on payment, and other smaller clarifications, added some new definitions, restructured the page so that writing guidelines are first, publishing information is second, and submission guidelines are third, and corrected errors pointed out. If you’re interested in writing … Continue reading →