Ah, summer break. Normally, I have all manner of writing to do, short and long works, which have been stockpiled for this ten-week stretch. This summer, that is not the case. Instead, I have drafted my Sword & Sorcery story for the next Thrilling Adventure Yarns and it is off to Aaron Rosenberg for editing. […]
Since school ended, my main goal has been to sit down and work on the outline for the original novel. And every day since then, other things have taken precedence. I have had to proofread galleys, address new Crazy 8 business, visit doctors (both scheduled and unscheduled), run errands, take yoga classes (trying out a […]
After all the time I have written prose and taught story structure and analysis, I would have thought that composing an outline for my first original novel would be pretty straightforward. Instead, I find myself working in fits and starts, trying to find the throughline for the story. I had the inciting incident as the […]