It’s my turn to post a free short story to the Darkness&Good blog again this week. This is an older story, because I freely confess that I’m spending every inch of my writing time trying to finish my novel Fox Red so I can release it next year, but you’ll enjoy it 😉 Desperate Measures […]
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YOU GUYS IT’S NEARLY HOLIDAYS. This, my friends, is a Very Exciting Thing. It also means that hopefully you’ll get some more regularly scheduled blogging – and I’m going to do my level best to set up some sort of blogging system that will work to keep things happening regularly throughout 2017, I promise >.<
Over 40 Free Stories! An Anthology of Stories for Teen Readers Read More »
Hey there, Just a short post to let you know that I have something up on Darkness&Good this week – a poem, actually, that I wrote on the way home from the US last month. Love you. Stay safe. A Read more:Tales from the SFRB Released!Part 5 of the L.A.O.S. is up now! 🙂Made-It Monday:
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! There’s also Day 2. Way, way back when I was a very newbie writer and had never completed more than the very occasional short story, I was part of a critique group on Critique Circle. We went through a stage of doing weekly short story challenges
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! There’s also Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4. Whoa, day 5 of plotting! So pretty much all I’m going to do today is provide a quick wrap-up, including an overview of the main points discussed in yesterday’s video. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, besides
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! There’s also Day 2 and Day 3. Today, the climax this has all been building towards. A couple of weeks ago I was super excited to able to visit Liana in Alaska (!!!!), and while I was there, Much Plotting Occurred. We plotted 6 novel/las that week, I
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Reminder that the Darkness&Good free (unedited) short story blog is functioning again now that we’ve added author Thea van Diepen to our ranks, woohoo! Today is part of my Russian steampunk assassin story, One Bad Man 🙂 Let me know if you like it and I’ll post more next time <3 Read more:The Powers That
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! Okay, so, yesterday I confessed to you my secret nightmare as a writer: structure. Not because I resent being constrained by arbitrary rules or whatever, but because actually, after reading a crap-tonne of new-writer stories in the last ten years, I have a healthy appreciation
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Being an English teacher is good for my writer ego. I used to think that probably I was just *stupid* for all the beginner mistakes I made – but going on seven years of high school* English teaching where students usually have to complete one creative response per semester, I’ve marked over 1100 creative responses that
Plotting #1: My Biggest Flaw As A Writer Read More »
Dialogue punctuation is something I really harp on about to my students, because there are a lot of rules in fiction, and you can break every single one of them if you have a good reason – except dialogue. Yeah, okay, I know there are some big-name authors out there who DO break the rules
