{THE WRITING LIFE }
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Didn't I JUST do my May wrap up? And yet, May seems like kinda a long time ago, and June felt like a normalish length month. (oh hey, my laptop is still moving slow and the words are taking f o r e v e r to show up. Yay *eyes light on fire*) So, … Continue reading June Wrap Up (didn’t we just do this with May???)
This week I fulfilled a life long dream. (Gotten a book published? Found a portal to Middle Earth? No.) I broke into my very own house. *cue Mission Impossible theme* My sister and I went to see Jurassic Park at a drive-in this week (DINOSAURS). IT WAS GREAT. We sat in the back of my … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 20
So I was going to do a Father's Day themed post, but then like all the father characters I could think of were like, Mando (I actually thought of a lot more, like Stoick, Hawkeye, Tony Stark, etc. But they were all from movies, and I was like, "do fathers even EXIST in books? Like … Continue reading Don’t be lazy; of it needs to be fixed, it needs to be fixed (oh look, it’s me talking about the woes of editing again)
Getting back to normal. But what the heck is normal? Is normal good? Do we even want to get back to normal? I do want to get back to normal BUT *and here we're gonna hold this thought* *also yes to normal meaning I want to be able to leave the house without reasonably worrying … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol 19
Writing bloggers: Here is how I write a novel: One, I take the idea and put it in a special box. Two, I start working on character profiles. Three - Me: I AM CHAOS. The more I write and edit, the more I find I rarely do something the same way twice. The only thing … Continue reading Writing Routines: the Writer, the Myth, the Legend (good luck trying to follow my train of thought here)
You know what's hard? Writing facial expressions. I swear it's nigh impossible. Because when I try I end up doing things like this: She swallowedHe stuck his tongue in his cheekhis brow furrowed/crossed his brown/eyebrows pinched together. Just something with the eyebrows.some other weird, vaguely descriptive tick Or then the other option is to just … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 18
("Bonds by bullets, bullets kill Nazis. Bing, bang, boom. You're an American hero." and ladies and gentlemen, what movie is that line from??) I like writing fight scenes (heaven knows why. Contrary to popular opinion, I've never been in a fight. The closet thing was probably those beanie baby fights we used to have in … Continue reading Bing, Bang, Boom (thoughts about fight scenes)
So first off, I totally didn't notice that last Saturday was my 200th post. I had seen it coming up and was planning to do something special (you know, throw confetti, break a bottle of champange, share 200 facts that you don't have time to read), but alas, here we are. I really have written … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 17
Nationally and worldwide, May has been a rough month. There are crazy goofy things like murder hornets and monkeys escaping with COVID-19 (and monkeys on little motorbikes supposedly stealing children. I think this monkey thing is getting to my head cuz the other night I had a dream they were trying to get in my … Continue reading May Wrap Up: In Which the World is on Fire
Another novel finished, another novel in the bag. (at least a first draft) I finished The Michigan Triangle this week, and that makes it my *digs out calculator* my 9th novel. The 6th first draft of a novel I've written in 4ish years. (I think I did that math right) UM, wow what? And how … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol, 16
