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Posted on January 9, 2023 Leave a Comment
2023 edition. Happy New Year! Fingers crossed most of these goals get accomplished this year… Bonds of Magic series: Dreamcatcher series: Red Hour: Other: Wish me luck in 2023!
Posted on November 14, 2022 Leave a Comment
If there is a good reason. During the past couple of weeks, I put a clean copy of Seeds of Power to the side and vowed not to open it again. I edited my query letter and my synopsis, but both need a little more work before I am ready to move forward. I decided […]
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 In addition to reading published works, I improved my writing skills by consuming and discussing the unpublished […]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 […]
Posted on March 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
Hi! I’m going to share my unfolding journey in writing and getting published. It began by simply trying to write. Writing a fantasy novel was the one consistent dream I always listed during leadership and life goal seminars. But I never picked up my half-finished manuscript from my college days. I never started a new […]
Beth Green 