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Posted on June 14, 2021 1 Comment
My story doesn’t control me. Sometimes I forget this. I’m an improvisor/pantser so that first draft is often over genre wordcount guidelines by thousands and has subplots that end up going nowhere. I almost always have to rewrite the beginning once I’ve refined the ending. But I control the story. It doesn’t control me. So […]
Posted on May 17, 2021 2 Comments
Every. single. time. My husband hasn’t read a published book in a year. He’s too busy reading my drafts—and, you know, working, biking, doing things he loves. I try not to ask him more than once a week: “What chapter are you on?” I try. I do. But I devour books in a matter of […]
Posted on April 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
The flip side of sharing my work was reading the work of others. Connecting personally with writers (in my genre and outside of it) and positively critiquing their work gave me another leap forward in my writing journey. In addition to reading published works, I improved my writing skills by consuming and discussing the unpublished […]
Posted on April 5, 2021 1 Comment
I’m not ready. Is it good enough? What if they hate it? Putting your work in front of other people can be scary. Even thinking about letting others read your book can make you want to run screaming or hide under the bed. (Hopefully you don’t hold it tightly while murmuring my precious…) Being nervous […]
Posted on March 22, 2021 1 Comment
Think you just lost your work? Don’t Panic. Easier said than done. Channeling Douglas Adams didn’t stop my meltdown one Sunday morning. I absolutely panicked. I wanted to cry because I thought I lost thirty pages of rewrites I was very excited about. My laptop automatically syncs to the cloud. Did I remember that in […]
Beth Green 