Saving Happily Ever After: a short story

Goldie lowered her binoculars. What on earth did Kodiak, leader of The Three Bears, want at the Country Cottage in the middle of the night? Restored from pre-magical times, the Cottage was the sort of museum that only interested old people and parents of little children. It held nothing that anyone would consider worth stealing. [...]

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Saving Happily Ever After v1 is Done!

So I finished “Saving Happily Ever After” for the Summer Writing Challenge, to find out that the deadline’s been extended another week. Guess I didn’t need to push so fast. Oh well. I’ll post it up on here tomorrow so I can enter it. Then I can look at getting Insomnia ready for the Writers of [...]

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Editors Requesting Sex in My Books

I gave up on books when I was a teenager. I just couldn’t find something that was interesting to read, and clean. So, I decided that I would write stories that I wanted to read, and when I went to sell them, I would fight to not put in any sex or language because I [...]

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How to Generate Interest in Your Story

Ok, now for a post that isn’t a gimmick. (though everything I said about James Dashner is me being honest).
It’s true that a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, but a story by any other title wouldn’t get the same number of readers.
Case in point: the most surefire way to get [...]

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Author Spotlight: James Dashner

I met James Dashner at LTUE in February, and he was a really great guy to talk to. He gave me lots of tips on the writing industry. Now, he’s got a blog up, on which he has been describing his path to publication (first post here). It has some really good insights for how NOT to [...]

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Why Do We Rewrite?

Saw this in today’s newspaper and I loved it (since its so true). The comic strip is Rhymes With Orange.

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Due Date Minus Two Months

Wow, only two months before my due date arrives. That means its time for another picture! The change in growth this time isn’t as drastic as it was last month, but its still there. It looks like I’m carrying high, instead of out, which doesn’t make my ribs very happy. They get crowded with [...]

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Saving Happily Ever After v0 Is Done!

I really had to force myself to write this story. I wrote it for the Summer Writing Challenge, and since the story wasn’t flowing through my mind, it wasn’t flowing onto the page either. At least I think I came up with some good ideas. It has to be better than the last Goldilocks and [...]

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Why Lots of Time Does Not Mean Lots of Writing

Saw this in my daily comic reading online and thought I’d share. Foxtrot may be Sunday only now, but I like reading the old ones. This one’s from September 4, 1996.

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