I’ve been thinking about the planner vs. pantser debate a good bit lately as I’m starting work on one novel and gearing up to do revisions on another. If you’re not familiar with these terms when it comes to writing your story — “planner” is probably pretty obvious, someone who plans things out before they write. “Pantser” refers to someone…
Have you ever had a story you just were compelled to write? I don’t mean something you were told to write, or something you thought would be really fun. I mean an experience where you absolutely could not rest until you got the words and ideas out of your head and onto paper or word processor. Where something inside was…
No, not biological evolution, as in Darwinism. That’s a completely different topic that doesn’t fit on this blog at all. I mean the evolution of the development of our skills and talents. I’ve been reading the collected stories of O. Henry lately. I’ve always enjoyed the stories of his that I’ve read, but I found a big, beautiful hardbound collection…
My blog tour continues today, and so does my friend Elizabeth’s! I’ll be hosting a guest post for her here while my friend Olivia hosts one for me over at her blog. It’s like guest-post-ception. So click on over to read my post about characters and making them more like people, then save that tab and come back to read…
“No one can mysteriously disappear leaving no trace. It isn’t realistic.” “You’re right, Emily,” her grandfather said thoughtfully. “It isn’t realistic. However, a good many things happen in this world that are not realistic, things supernatural.” Today I’m excited to be participating in my friend Morgan’s cover reveal for hew new book, Creighton Hill! I do have some news of…
Not the words a nineteen-year-old boy wants to hear — or anyone else, for that matter. For a few months, I’ve been posting updates on my edits of Implant. I didn’t think much of it until people started prodding me for more information… what is Implant? What’s it about? Why have we not heard anything about it until now? I’ll…