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 …

The Day-Job: Having Two Careers

Like many writers, I have a full time job. It’s particularly common with those who are still in the process of writing and editing; those who haven’t taken that step forward of submissions to agents or publishers, or into the …