Writing
cracking lug nuts
Is that a familiar phrase to everyone? If I say a heroine cracks the lug nuts on a wheel, is it generally understood that she’s loosening them (without removing them) before she jacks up the car? (Am asking because when I put the term in Google, it shows up as the first link on a […]
It takes time to cross multiple state lines … sometimes. D'oh!
The problem with living on the west coast is that when you set a story on the east coast, you kind of forget that you can drive across four or more states in the same amount of time it takes to get from the Oregon coast to the Idaho state line. And so it doesn’t […]
Well, here I am
I’m rewriting the beginning of the hellhound novella again. Remember when I figured out that my conflict sucked? Well, it did, and I fixed it … but then I didn’t change much else. I decided to just change how the information is given out. Big mistake. I could barely write it, because it was awful. […]
Note to self:
Just because the conflict in a novella needs to be solvable in a short amount of time, it does not mean that the conflict has to be unimportant. Something has to be at stake. And that something at stake should be something readers will care about. And industrial espionage, when the research being stolen can’t […]
Cindy Asks… (Meljean has an actual post about writing.)
In the previous post about the Demon Bound galleys, Cindy asked, Question – how many times have you read this book by now? I just wonder if there is a time when you get so sick of reading it over and over again. I’m just thinking of my university days when I wrote all those […]
On Hawtness and Romances
So, obviously, it takes me a while to get around to anything lately. I’ve been thinking about this since I read a comment by Nora Roberts at Dear Author (in response to Jane Litte’s article Let’s Talk About Sex (and Love, and then Sex Again) which posed the question of how/why/what it’ll take for romance […]
I'm not dead.
Just writing. 🙂 Since I’ve gotten a couple of e-mails wondering, I thought I should pop up and make it official: She’s alive. Aliiiiive! And there’s no cover/excerpt yet, but the cover copy for Demon Bound is up on a page. It might be slightly tweaked before the final version, though. Back to my hole […]
I groomed my eyebrows today.
Because I was looking a little werewolf-ish. At least the hair in the middle of my palms has been worn away by the keyboard. Which is me saying — um, I’m not online much. Not checking blogs. Google Reader is piling up, and I will catch up on everything (memes, e-mails, etc) on the other […]
I'm getting around.
No, no — this is not about the letter in RWR about how today’s heroines all talk and act like sluts (because that’s been done and discussed over and over and over and over and over.) But I do feel I should warn readers that a) my heroines aren’t likely to be virgins (although they […]
Interview at AAR! and more
I talk about whether I’ll ever write a funny book, the religious aspects of the series, and the difficulty classifying the series in an interview at All About Romance today. I’m still guest blogging at The Book Binge! (With prizes at the end of the week!) Today, they ask the important questions, like: Coke or […]
For Micki Ferrets and other Ethical Considerations
**NOTE: If you read this post in its entirety, please also be certain to read the comments. I do not purport to be an expert on plagiarism or on writing — I’m just another crazy who’s doing my best to tell a good story, and to write it in an ethical way. I might be […]
Nora = Cow Bell
Because more is ALWAYS good. This is a quick roundup of links (usually posts that have links to other discussions, because no way can I get them all) — there are many people out there saying things much better than I could, and several discussions that are ongoing and fascinating. I’m still at the point […]
Dear Anne Stuart: I promise not to steal your red shoes.
I think in every reader’s life, we come across passages in writing that grab us emotionally, or that change something fundamental in the way we think or feel, or that we think are beautiful, or interesting, or hateful, or awful, or boring, or any number of responses. I know this has happened hundreds or thousands […]
Revising, revising, revising (and blowing my nose).
It never fails. Deadline or revisions/copy-edits? I get a massive kick-my-ass-and-call-me-Sally head cold. This is what pulled me out of it long enough to blog: Oscar Wilde kicks ass in a Jonah Hex comic. Totally surreal. The revisions/copy-edits have to go out on Tuesday, so I should be alive again then. I have a guest […]
Not wounded, sire, but dead.
Deadline, upcoming. Head cold, approaching. Violence in the story, extreme. Wondering if maybe too much, but still lopping off heads left and right (and top?) PMS, already here. Desire to reply to e-mail informing me that a new review of Demon Moon is up, and let the review editor know that her reviewer just rewrote […]