No, not what you’re thinking… this isn’t a lesson on how to plot. This is a musing on how plotting happens. Which means? I was shoveling a foot of snow out of my driveway last Tuesday afternoon and I found myself plotting. I’ve been in a restaurant trying to keep my mind on the conversation…
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Immortality – would you really want it?
I first published this post two years ago on another blog, but recently, I got into a discussion about immortality and it made me revisit the subject. I write about immortal characters –vampires and more recently, a siren. If you write about vampires, immortality is a subject you give a lot of thought. It goes…
Halloween – yea or nay?
Here we are the second week of October and already, I’m thinking Halloween. I’ve never been a big fan of Halloween. Oh, when I was a kid, we did the costumes and trick or treat thing. And in high school there were the parties. In college, I was much too “serious” a student to join…
CoGold 2015
It’s almost conference time. This year I’m on a ProTrack panel, Tactics and Techniques for Keeping a Series Fresh. Since I have nine books in one series and two in another (counting two novellas, I guess it’s closer to four) this is a subject I have given a great deal of thought. When I wrote…
What is Inspiration?
By Jeanne C. Stein One of the first questions every writer gets is: What inspires you as a writer? My very first response was: everything. But then I realized I was confusing inspiration with the process of taking an idea and developing it into a story. Two different things. The muse that sparks an idea…