No Time to Waste

November 12, 2010
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ~William Shakespeare See that quote there? That is something I took to heart a long time ago, when I realized that so many creative people just… drag along, hiding themselves, waiting for some meteor to hit them in the head engraved with ‘you can do it!’, [...]

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Congrats and Clichés

September 16, 2010
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First of all, congratulations to Karen Mahoney, who just got the ARC (advanced reader copy) of her book Iron Witch in the mail!  (She told me she cried a little. I damn well hope she did. That is a gorgeous cover, and this is a great occasion.) And now on to content! So clichés are a [...]

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The Great Rewrite

June 21, 2010
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So I am working like mad on the rewrite of Kingmaker. To say it is not going as planned is a little like saying, “oh hey, that USSR thing? Maybe didn’t quite proceed the way we thought it would.” The plot hasn’t changed. That’s the crazy part. It’s like stepping stones through a river – [...]

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Focus

May 21, 2010
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This is one of those weeks that requires extreme focus. The edit of book-one-which-is-no-longer-called-Guardianturned into a complete rewrite, and it’s a good thing. If the reader doesn’t care, the book isn’t ready. I’m slowly but surely learning to identify little things like the difference between personal narrator POV and impersonal narrator POV. One provides a [...]

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