1
What is your favourite physical fitness activity outside of writing? Does it give you ideas for your books? My favorite fitness activity that I do on a regular basis is kung fu. I’ve been learning Fut Gar kung fu for … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writer At Work
When you first started your blog, how did you get the word out so people other than your friends would know about it and read it? Honestly, when I first started my blog (which, if you look at my LiveJournal … Continue reading
Head on over to Wicked Jungle to read my guest post, Anatomy of an Idea, where I discuss why “where did you get the idea for your book?” isn’t such a simple question, with examples of the many bits and … Continue reading
How much information about the plot of your book would you recommend revealing in a query letter? Up to the climax? How the story concludes? I think the best advice I’ve heard on query letters is to make your book … Continue reading
What do you do when you get a serious case of writer’s block? What do you do to get through it? To be honest, I don’t get anything I would call writer’s block. I do have a number of points … Continue reading
Dear readers and fellow writers, Please recommend to me your favorite songs about the creative process, creative industries (the music business, Hollywood, etc.), and/or fame. The plot bunny that began here has started growing and wants a plentiful soundtrack. 🙂 … Continue reading
Things I looked up on the internet to fill in some of the square brackets in my WIP: -top performing arts schools in N. America -illnesses that most often lead to death in N. America (answer: for the most part, … Continue reading
Every book brings new challenges, and my current project is no exception. The biggest of them? I’m writing it not just in first person POV (like GHOST), but in the form of the main character’s journal entries. It’s interesting how … Continue reading
To give you a taste of what I’ve been working on lately, here’s the song that I’ve had on repeat for the last two weeks: If I can get that feeling on the page, I will be a very happy … Continue reading
Curious about the query letter that got me representation for GHOST? (Back then it was called IN MEMORY OF.) My agent, Kristin Nelson, is sharing it, along with her comments on what made it successful, over at her blog: GHOST … Continue reading