This is my fifth attempt of writing 50,000 words of novel in 30 days. This year though, I’m using October and November as a two-month experiment into my writing process. It’s a mixture of easy and hard things, and sometimes …
Blocks in Editing a Series
The Planes Series is my current work-in-progress. The important information about this series is that I began writing the first draft of the first book in January 2012. I finished it in October 2012. It’s now September 2013, and although …
Show Don’t Tell
For me, line editing is the longest part of the editing process. Like many writers, I have an inner editor who wants every word, phrase and sentence to be perfect. Who doesn’t want their work to be the best it …
Brief Update ~ End-of-August
I haven’t done a proper update since May and I’ve been making some steady progress, so here’s another list-of-things-i’ve-done. In my previous posts, I’ve mentioned that I had this week as a deadline for sending my novel off to an …
Beta-Reading: Faith in my Writing Skills
Since March 2013, I’ve begun to frame my writing as “a career”. But that brings about all sorts of “legitimacy” concerns. Am I a real writer? These issues arise especially at the editing stage – where I tend to find …
Blending Stories
When I wrote Wings of Skell (now Planes Shifter) in January 2012, it was a story of a girl who, befriended by a bird of prey, poses as a falconer, enrols as an assassin and wants to get home to …