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 …
Interview with S. M. Boyce – Part III
It’s my birthday tomorrow! … Just thought you should know … ~ “I really think self-publishing is a gift to writers. I think that it gives you control over your work, it empowers you to feel like you actually know …
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 …
Interview with S. M. Boyce – Part II
“I’ve learned a lot of lessons. But I think the biggest would be to have patience with your dream.” ~ S. M. Boyce C. R. Trumbo and I interviewed the lovely S. M Boyce in April, and and we’re now posting …
Interview with S. M. Boyce ~ Part I
Did you know that S. M. Boyce thinks blue cheese smells like feet, is a month younger than Harry Potter, wrote a story about a lonely pickle and that she doesn’t really drink hot drinks? Back in April, C. R. Trumbo …
Motivation: When It’s All On You
At work, I have deadlines, specific outcomes to achieve and timescales to follow. When writing a novel, this isn’t often the case. So we writers need to set ourselves deadlines instead. But if you’re anything like me, a self-set deadline …