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The Story Behind The Story; or, Why Are You Telling Me This Now?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) My WIP has taken a strange turn. My brain has suddenly insisted that I stop what I’m writing and set down a (fairly detailed) account of the main character’s eighteenth birthday. Chances … Continue reading
Multitasking; or Can Writer Head and Edit Head Ever Work Together?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) It’s summer, and I’ve agreed to take part in a summer writing challenge. The problem is, my brain got stuck in Edit Head. You see, at the same time, I was also … Continue reading
Decisions, Decisions; or How Do You Know When You’re Doing It Right?–Part 2
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I discovered I had more to say on this topic, so we’re revisiting it this week. My second edit of “The Daughters of August Winterbourne” is all but complete. I have to … Continue reading
Suspense; or Raising The Stakes
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I must admit, I’m in a certain amount of suspense at the moment. You see, I watch one television show on a regular basis (Supernatural), and because I had plans that kept … Continue reading
Why I Didn’t Buy "The Hunger Games"; or Reading Pet Peeves
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I was out shopping the other day, waiting for Beloved Husband to return from wherever he had gone off to, and I saw a rack of current Young Adult bestsellers. Among them … Continue reading
What Have We Learned?; or, Charting Our Growth As Writers
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) [No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. This is, in fact, my second entry for today. Which, by my reckoning, catches me up to last Thursday. Sorry. I’ll try to do better in … Continue reading
Doing the (Head) Hop; or, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Part 2)
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) In my last entry, I commented on how I had gone back to read one of my first third-person pieces, a Regency romance, and found it rife with head-hopping. I discovered that … Continue reading
Doing The (Head) Hop; or, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) (Sigh. This is actually last week’s entry. This week’s entry is still to come.) Yesterday, I got out one of my older works-in-progress, a Regency romance that I started way back when … Continue reading
And They Will Come Home, A-Wagging Their Tails; or, Stating The Obvious
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) When I was a kid, my brothers and I had a record player with which we were allowed to play. It would only play 45 rpms–and it played them at about 42 … Continue reading
Blog As Writing Tool; or Making My LiveJournal Earn Its Keep
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) Anybody besides me out there still using LiveJournal? Blogger’s cool and all, and Facebook and Twitter have their uses, but I still love LJ. Because it lets me do things none of … Continue reading
In The Home Stretch; or Are We There Yet?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) (I know, I know. This is actually last Thursday’s posting, running a little late again. I’ll try to do tomorrow’s on time…) So here I am, closing in on the end … Continue reading
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You’re Out Of Order; or Writing The Ending First
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I have another confession to make. (I seem to make them fairly frequently on this blog.) I’ve already written the last scene of my current Work In Progress. Even though I have … Continue reading
Advancing The Plot; or, When Darlings Have To Die
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) (Pretend this is last week. I got busy getting ready to go on vacation and never quite got around to posting this until now. Sorry!) I had to kill some of my … Continue reading
Exposition Done Right; or, I Saw What You Did There
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) Just got back from seeing Tron: Legacy. Yes, I know. The movie’s only been out for what, two months now, and I’m finally getting around to seeing it. I don’t know why … Continue reading
Too Much Of A Good Thing; or, Writing vs Overwriting
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) As apprentice writers, we’re told that we need to make every sentence sing. We should choose our words carefully so that each can have maximum impact, making every verb and noun count. … Continue reading
Shine A Little Love; or, Secondary Characters Need Attention, Too!
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) Sorry for the late posting this week. I’ve been fighting off a cold. Still not sure whether I’m winning or losing, but that’s beside the point. This week, I want to blather … Continue reading
Trust The Process; or, Sneaky Inner Editor Is Sneaky
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) Writing this week has been a bit of a struggle, and I think I’ve figured out why. Now that the pressure of NaNoWriMo is off, I’ve slowed my pace a little, trying … Continue reading
It’s October 14, Do You Know Where Your Plot Is; or, NaNoWriMo, Coming Soon
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I looked at my calendar today and felt a rush of panic mingled with a dose of anticipation. It’s October 14. Which means that NaNoWriMo is just over two weeks away. And … Continue reading
Conflict; or, Keeping Things Interesting
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) One of the things I struggle with in my writing is keeping enough conflict going to make the story interesting. I find that I often create friction between two characters, only to … Continue reading
The Sex Scene That Wasn’t; or, When You Say Yes and the Characters Say No
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) Something amusing happened to me last weekend. In one of the stories I’m currently writing, I had reached the point where the next thing in my mental outline was for the main … Continue reading
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