I have never really thought of writing as my job. I am a mom, and have always seen that as my “job” and writing as my outlet. Because it is my outlet I have gone along for the last couple of years, writing when I feel like it, stopping when I don’t. Moving from project…
Okay, Let me start off by saying I don’t have sex scenes in my books. I have tension building intimate scenes, but not full graphic sex scenes. However, I found an article at: http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/content.php?2275-Perfect-Sex—Or-How-to-Romance-Your-Reader-by-Nina-Pierce Perfect Sex – Or how to romance your reader, By Nina Pierce. I thought the article was great. Even if you…
My husband and I have been talking a lot lately about where to get the money to finish up my book and get some great cover art. As someone who judges a book by it’s cover nine times out of ten, and being married to someone with Dyslexia who always looks at the cover first, we…
So, I finished my book, The Society, last year. Which is a Dystopian Vampire Romance. I have lots of love for that piece of work. My leading male, is brooding, gorgeous and tortured. My leading female is tough, sexy and powerful. When I wrote it, I wanted the first chapter to be from the point of…
Five Weak Words that Make Your Writing Less Effective by Jeff Goins http://goinswriter.com/weak-words/ I just read this article on his blog and it was a great article. It identifies words that make your work weak and tells you why. I must admit that I have used these words before. Who hasn’t? But, I plan to…
My book Dead Awakenings has begun to generate a small amount of buzz with a few people in the entertainment industry. Now before we all get too excited, it was just a few. And they want to see a script. Uh…yeah… Oh! And did I mention they want to see it in the next thirty…
When I first heard the idea from a friend, four years ago, about a book premise that publishers said they were looking for, I was intrigued. For days it sat in my mind, like a small flickering ember. I tried and tried to blow on it and make it grow. But it didn’t work. Finally…
There is a great website called Screenwriting University. They have tons of free seminars and online help for writers in general, not just screen writers. Today on their Facebook page they posted a link to a new segment called How to writer a deeper scene, even if it is talking heads. by Hal Croasman. It is a…
So as I am on the latest draft of my book Dead Awakenings. I am focusing solely on the editing factor this time. My great friend and fellow author Darin Calhoun, has turned me onto three websites that I find to be extremely helpful in editing. 1) Grammarly.com Grammarly has been a wonderful and in depth website that has…
In my world scientists come in only one variety. Mad. As I think of a scientist, I think of a man with crazy red hair and a white lab coat, pouring bubbling mixtures from beaker to beaker waiting for color changes and eventual explosions. Yup! That’s me. (insert evil cackle) However, This was a very…
