I’m past the halfway mark for The Last Goddess! Based on the calculations of at least five different Excel sheets, this beast should be done by mid-November. Thanks to my two idiot weirdos (sorry, TLG’s protagonists), my search histories have been riddled with a number of wtf? queries of late. In no particular order, here…
Right now, I’m in the throes of rewriting a novel I had originally started back in 2014. Generally, I’m the type of writer who “front loads” rewrites — in other words, I tend to excessively rework outlines and scene beats until the kinks are ironed out. (That’s not to say that I don’t rewrite drafts…
I consider myself someone whom Raymond Holt would give a curt but approving head nod to if I showed him my OneNote organization system. So, when my agent asked me to assemble a story bible for The Arkqunots Project, I thought: Pffffft. Give me 20 minutes. Narrator: It was not 20 minutes. At the time,…
Did you know that perfectionism and procrastination are two sides of the same coin? As someone who has spent a solid two decades working to overcome her strong perfectionist impulses, I’ve spent a good chunk of time reading about this silent killer of writing sessions. At its core, procrastination is all about evading discomfort. And…