One of the characters in my latest novel, The Sinfully Seductive Rakish Rogue’s Mysterious Midnight Mistress of Pleasure, is a shameless namedropper (confession: she’s based upon a woman I once met at a dinner party). This means that I must casually mention lots, and lots of names.
Don’t tell anyone, but Lady So and So mentioned [...]
Previously on my blog, I wrote about writing an entire first draft of a manuscript in dialogue. As promised, here is an exclusive, un-edited, sneak peak snippet of pure dialogue. No tags, no descriptions of tone of voice, or posture, or anything. Of course, the scene is enhanced by it, but here is the naked [...]
I’m trying something new with this novel–other than being meticulously organized with My Glorious Outline (which I am so thankful for!). I’m writing my first draft entirely in dialogue. Line after line, scene after scene–nothing but characters chattering away. We’ll see how it reads, but I’m finding it a thrill and a pleasure to write.
In [...]
I’ve blogged about rejection before, but I’ve been inspired by a comment on a previous post to revisit the subject. The question posed was “How do you overcome rejections and not let them get you so down you can’t write?”
And here is my answer: perhaps you don’t write.
Instead, perhaps you take a time out to [...]
Every once in a while, I have one of those days when the words just aren’t coming. This isn’t usually a problem for me (really, it isn’t, but I must add that just in case my agent or editor is reading this). Usually I don’t have time for writer’s block but I am only human, [...]
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