Today we’re taking a look at character and setting worksheets in Scrivener, as well as how the application can be used to help brainstorm visually. (What, you didn’t know you could brainstorm visually in Scrivener? I didn’t either until recently, but then I discovered the freeform corkboard. It’s pretty nifty. Watch and see.) I’m thinking...Continue Reading
Copy edits really slowed me down this month. They arrived mid-February and were due just this past Tuesday. I only got through a couple novels in the process, but they were good ones! Here’s what I read in February: I love a good fairy-tale retelling, so I was so very excited to get my hands...Continue Reading
I had a different blog post planned for today — my February reads, which still may happen — but then this letter arrived in my inbox and I had to share it. A year ago, today, I used a service called FutureMe.org to write myself a letter. I’m not sure how I heard about the...Continue Reading
I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately. While drafting book two, all I wanted to do was get my copy edits for book one. Book two wasn’t necessarily being problematic, but gosh, this writing this was hard. I’d forgotten how scary the blank page can be. How you are typing the words for...Continue Reading
