Originally Posted On 2/5/13 Over the years I’ve taken a middle-of-the-road approach to critique groups. I waffled. I tried to see and accept opinions that I didn’t entirely agree with. And now I give up. You need a critique group before you publish. When you make the choice to move…
Originally Posted 2/21/13 There are days where turning off the computer feels like a defeat. I turn off the computer at the end of my daily writing goals. Sometimes I have a number of words to write, sometimes I’m looking to edit a certain number of pages, sometimes I’m sending…
You wouldn’t think there was a sadness attached to success. There should be elation. Perhaps celebration. There should be parades, and trumpets, joy! But as I clean my desk tonight and tuck away the notes and scraps and post-is associated with DECOHERENCE I realize I’m burying the corpse of Jane…
I thought I would spice up this summer’s blogging with older posts from my previous blog (which you can still find at lianabrooks.blogspot.com). And then I read through. It was like the archaeology of my career digging through those old posts. Updates on the first draft of EVEN VILLAINS FALL…