Fifty-thousand words in, and I still haven’t managed to hit the 25% mark, which means this book is due to be about 200,000 words. Where’s that grimace emoji, again?? Ah, yes, I found it. “One-hundred and twenty-thousand words,” I told myself. “Hit your 25% mark by 30,000 words,” I told Read more…
I’m sorry! It wasn’t that I forgot that I’d promised to post every Wednesday. It was that I literally did not have time. I know, I know, “I don’t have time” is the most common excuse for a dropped ball EVER, but in this case, I literally did not have Read more…
Hello, everyone! How was the first week of May for you? With my self-imposed NaNoWriMo deadlines plus graduate school heating up, mine has been as busy as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. I don’t have much to say other than that this week, so let’s just cut to Read more…
Well, y’all, I had a week of both self-discovery and serious self-doubt. We’ll start with the self-discovery part, and in the interest of efficiency, I’m going to copy and paste a portion of the email I sent to my writing group this past weekend: I have had a major revelation Read more…
I handed LT my iPad. “Keep this for me,” I said. “I don’t need to be around it right now.” “How long do you want me to keep it for?” LT asked. “For the rest of my spring break,” I answered (the high school where I work is on spring Read more…
I don’t know if “Three Sentence Thursday” is actually a thing, but I decided it’s a thing today. I wanted to pick out three sentences at random from my upcoming Soldier of Dorsa (Prologue here and Chapter 1 here, plus this other random little bit here — beta, obvi) novel. Read more…
I was going to give you a little sneak peek at Joslyn’s childhood, since that’s what I’ve been working on this blustery Sunday morning, but then I thought, Nah, the last two things I’ve shared (the Soldier of Dorsa Prologue and Chapter 1) have both had Joslyn at the center Read more…
A big “thank you” to all the readers out there who have helped make Princess of Dorsa a success. I was nervous about writing an epic fantasy / lesbian novel hybrid. I shouldn’t have been nervous. I should have realized that there would be other queer nerds out there who Read more…
So one way the many ways that I procrastinate and avoid getting down to the actual work I need to do is that I write on other projects. What I tell myself: “I will just work on this other project for a little while to warm myself up. Then once Read more…
I’m an enormous fan of The Walking Dead. *Enormous*. Enormous enough I actually have a bobble-head doll of Glenn on my desk — a doll I bought in Senoia, Georgia, where they film the show. Enormous enough that I get frequently reminded by the gf, “You’re a dork, you know Read more…