Hello all! I have exciting editing news. This afternoon I finished the second draft of my current WIP, sometimes known as Laz here on the blog. I’m happy with how it’s improved since the first draft was completed more than a year ago. Here’s some information about it: Age Group: Young Adult Genre: Post Nuke …
Editing update: I’ve finally finished my first readthrough of my book. Here’s What it looks like. Reading it all the way through was a more difficult task than I anticipated. The huge number of mistakes and areas of bad writing don’t make for smooth reading, especially when I have to stop each time I find …
Today I’m going to address something that is currently helping me out immensely in continuing my rough draft of Laz: Writing scenes out of order. If you have experience in writing novels, you may be thinking well, duh, but writing out of order was something that I was dead set against when I first started …
This week’s DTT will revolve around time management, something that I’ve had a lot of ups and downs with over the years. It applies to writing just as much as anything else. Let’s dive right in: My struggles with time management are nothing new. It’s something I never had to learn how to do effectively …
Today I’ll reintroduce what I’ve taken to calling “Deep Thoughts Thursday” (DTT) where I talk in-depth about something related to my writing that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. So here goes: Let’s talk about YA. If ever someone asks me what genre I write, and I reply that I write YA, the asker …
Pencils down, last scantron sheet handed in, and everything moved out of the dorm room (I have to move out every semester). It is officially the holiday break. With the hustle and bustle of finals out of the way, I’m hoping to fall back into a more regular writing pattern. That includes here on the …