editing, writing

Project Roadmap: Rosekeeper

I tend to switch my projects around fairly frequently, usually from month-to-month. It’s worked out well for me for years. Until recently however, I haven’t been doing much more than choosing a monthly project to work on and sort of diving in wherever felt best. The results of that have been mixed. Sometimes it works… Continue reading Project Roadmap: Rosekeeper

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General, writing

Adventures in Editing

Now that we’re out of Camp NaNo, I’m turning my attention back to the excessively long list of projects I want to work on. Ultimately, I decided on tackling one of my more unwieldy projects. I say unwieldy largely because it rapidly outgrew the initial portal fantasy idea I had for it, bloomed well into… Continue reading Adventures in Editing

Exercises, writing

Editing Worksheets

Editing is probably one of the hardest parts of the entire writing process. Once you're through the effort of writing a rough draft, you then have to pick it apart to find the parts that aren't working and to make them better. It might be hard to do that, especially when you're still in the… Continue reading Editing Worksheets

General, writing

The Next Writing Step

At this point in the year, a lot of writers are close to (or already are) the finishing line on their rough drafts. NaNoWriMo gives us a good chance to get through the hardest part of any task: the first step. Writing a good story is difficult. Specifically, writing a good novel is tremendously difficult.… Continue reading The Next Writing Step

Exercises, writing

The WiP Showoff Challenge

One of the hardest parts of being a writer sometimes is willingly sharing our work, especially when it’s not finished. We want it to be good and we want others to enjoy it as much as we enjoy writing it. Which is why I’d like to invite all of you to follow me in a… Continue reading The WiP Showoff Challenge