Today I gave myself a pat on the back for “winning” National Novel Writing Month with my book Miss Danby’s Condition (book three in the Harwell Heirs series). Continue reading
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NaNoWriMo: Pep Talk
I confess I am fanatical about National Novel Writing Month. The crazy idea thought up by Chris Baty way back in 1999 literally changed my life in 2006. The year before I had undergone a couple of life-altering events, so perhaps I was simply open to new experiences. I don’t know. Whatever psychological process was at play, I ended up catching the writing bug and have been an advocate for the November challenge ever since.
My friends are by now, after eight years, used to my prodding and encouraging them — my pep talks, as it were — to do NaNoWriMo, and I’ve been successful in getting several to attempt—and win!—the challenge. Everyone I’ve encouraged has been gracious or curious or thrilled.
Except one person. Continue reading
NaNoWriMo Prep: Plotting
National Novel Writing Month begins in 12 days – but who’s counting?
This will be my eighth year doing NaNoWriMo, and my seventh book. Continue reading
Works in Progress: General’s Wife, with excerpt
Warning: long excerpt ahead…
As I stated in a previous blog post, I’m revising my first book, The General’s Wife. So far, I’m just over halfway through what I call a “first pass” revision, in which I seek to clean up the point-of-view errors and prettify the text. I’ll do several more revisions based on my editing checklist. (One literary fiction friend told me over coffee one day that every novel needs to go through at least nine revisions. Oh my. That’s a lot. But, um, okay.)
I thought I might post an excerpt so those (dozens!) of you who have actually read General’s Wife can see what I’m doing here. The ideas underpinning the plot are all still there, it’s just the wrapper that has changed, and in this excerpt, the sensuality has been heightened. Continue reading
Giving back
Since I became a writer, I have only encountered generosity amongst fellow writers: Encouragement, advice, willingness to listen, shared enthusiasm when something goes right, a spirit of giving. I suspect it comes from the knowledge that we are colleagues, not competitors. This is true especially for genre writers, especially romance, where readers and fans read voraciously — a book a week, the more exuberant amongst them a book a day.
That’s a lot of books.
So, the purpose of my blog will be not only to tell you about what’s going on with my writing and promote new releases. I want to honor that spirit of giving and give back via encouragement, writing tips, and useful (or fun) resources that I hope will be interesting to both readers and writers.
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