I found the original idea for the Planes Trilogy this week; written on the back of an envelope. While writing draft one, I kept a note of the anything I wasn’t yet sure of including; such as questions about the …
May: The Process So Far
It’s May 7th. I began the process of regular submission in earnest on 17th March. Thus, in the last 50 days I’ve submitted: To Competitions: 7 pieces of flash fiction, 1 short story and 2 novel excerpts To Publications: 3 …
The Next Big Thing Meme: Planes Walker
In my last post I wrote about my main novel project of 2012: Planes Shifter, as I was tagged by C. R. Trumbo in a Blog Hop called The Next Big Thing. Much like writing the summary and query letters, despite being …
The Next Big Thing Meme: Planes Shifter
Back in December I was tagged in a Blog Hop by C. R. Trumbo. I thought it might be nice to answer this meme here. 1) What is the working title of your book? Planes Shifter is the first book in …
Forward Progress
On Monday night, I began the next round of edits on Planes Shifter. For the second draft, I chose two beta readers; one who is a writer herself, and one who likes to read. This way I have a readers …
Lists and Plans
Last week I wrote about seeing my writing as a second career and talked about what I’ve been doing to move things forward. This week, I decided to make a concrete list of steps forward, so that I can measure how …