What if every strand of spanish moss is a fallen angel? Angels worn thin by human hubris, angels whose wings faltered on their way to redemption. Choirs of angels laced together in anguish and mortality, exposed to the finite forms of descent: rain and sun and wind...
I'm not known for taking risks. I am, in fact, absurdly risk-averse, so much so that my therapist is really over it. I have already written about pissing off my therapist, and that she is demanding that I take some risks. Oh, she didn't put it that way -- her words...
It's always embarrassing to admit failure, but I'm not really embarrassed because I can't say I even tried. I had grand ideas about doing NaNoWriMo this year, and managed to claw up a good plot and characters for Wolves of Boston, but between the election drama and...
When characters have some wear on their tread it can automatically complicate the plot. "Older" characters, by which I mean "over thirty years old" are not uncommon, really. I think a lot depends on the genre -- suspense/thrillers often feature characters who are well...
Flailing out the gate for NaNoWriMo! Woo hoo! *flops over* I'm honestly good about writing a lot, every day. Because, well, I do that every day. Rare is the day that goes by where I don't clock at least 1,000 words between working on stories and writing blog posts....
This is going to be short post, because I did not schedule well, and that's what you get when you try to do NaNoWriMo along with finishing up two other writing projects while totally forgetting that you need to write a blog post too. I'm a creature of habit, and I've...
Today is Day 1 for National Novel Writing Month, and I'm not crying, you're crying!!! My word count for today was heaved out the door in desperation, but I made it to 1,805 words. My daily goal is 1,670, which is padding the requirements by a few words but I like the...
Mary-Sue: an idealized and seemingly perfect fictional character, a young or low-rank person who saves the day through unrealistic abilities. Often this character is recognized as an author insert or wish-fulfillment. [wikipedia] The term mary-sue has a very long...
Writing is a lonely job...except when its not. Today was one of those days. I had to scuttle my original plans for #NaNoWriMo, leaving me with nothing to work on as most other options at hand suffered the same problems. I needed a fresh new story idea, one that was...