In case you were curious how much gets cut or rewritten from a novel… … my Cut Scene file for #ChangeOfMomentum is at 10k right now. The final novel will probably be 90k. The cut scenes are things I rewrote from a different POV, parts of scenes that…
Many, many years ago, when the internet was young, I was a fourteen-year-old sitting in a quiet house in the windswept plains of Wyoming. It was time for the annual court-appointed visit to my father’s house. He was elsewhere. Maybe working. Maybe sleeping. Maybe drunk. My much-younger siblings were in…
One of the first lessons a novelist learns is that writing a book is not like writing an essay in school. The dynamics are different. The time factors are different. The end results are different. The drafts are different. With an essay it’s common to finish a full draft of…
2018 has been an interesting year for me. To say it didn’t quite go as planned is an understatement. In January I had some really big plans and a really tight schedule planned out. There was so much I wanted to do that by March I felt burnt out and…
Description Chapter 1 – Part 1 THEN A curl of raven hair lay between the blades of new spring grass like a serpent. Despair crashed over me like an ocean wave as I reached for Eithne’s hand only to find it cold. “Lady.” A knight’s voice penetrated my sorrow. It…
Description The halls of the rehab center were filled with a nauseating stench of a greedy, impatient death. It clung to the walls like the slime in caves and made each breath a struggle. To the mortal nose it no doubt smelled like bleach. My boots jangled with each step,…
Camelot… everyone thinks they know the story. There was King Arthur, his unfaithful wife, the best friend that betrayed him, and a horrible battle that ended it all. If Malory is to be believed, the death of Arthur plunged Britain into darkness, but has no bearing on the current political…
Sit down, kids, it’s time for some honest talk about life, the universe, and publishing as we know it. A couple weeks ago I posted about the fact that I was seriously considering not writing or publishing any more Heroes and Villains books. And, like you probably know because half…
Listen. Every authors hits a stage in their book where they question everything, where they doubt themselves, where they want to give up. It happens because you are comparing a working draft to finished manuscripts again. Which is a bit like asking why apples on the tree don’t taste like…