The Easter holidays are over (I hope you ate as much delicious chocolate as I did!), and today I decided on my next writing project.
Tag: Writing
Dual returns
So I lasted about three days without writing after finishing Before and After the Wedding before I started getting restless, and now I’m back at
Before and After the Wedding done… again!
Yes, that’s right, yesterday I finished Before and After the Wedding, my angsty, dark, erotic marriage-in-trouble romance, again! Unlike in the movies where writers seem
What makes something erotic, part III
I’ve been toying around with an erotic novella, and musing again on what makes something erotic. This isn’t the first time (Part I, Part II),
Proofreading: Make Word read to you
Sometimes, writing is like laying a puzzle. You’ve got some of the pieces, and they’re clean and spotless. Others seem a bit murky, or plain
How the Battlestar Galactica board game can help your writing
So I’m a big fan of board games, and fortunately so is my darling husband, which means we play a lot of them. What does
End of 2013
Well, 2013 is drawing to a close–I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I’m on vacation, which is just bliss I must say.
How to quickly change problematic characters
The bread and butter of fiction is to create characters that take on a life of their own. Sometimes, though, those spur-of-the-moment actions break your
Sympathy vs Empathy
It’s very easy to sympathize with your own characters. You created them, and you know them more intimately than any character written by anybody else–everything
First draft and editing–back at work on Before and After the Wedding
It’s funny how each part of the writing process brings such different skills and benefits to it–and downsides too, I suppose. Having just experimented with