‘Writing Tips’ Category

  1. Making That Goal!

    January 12, 2012 by Megs



    Annnnnnd… Done! At 11:20 PM on January 9th, I crossed the finish line on Darkmore’s first round of revisions. Of course, now it’s January 12th that I’m making this post. Things have been a little on the crazy side on this end. You understand.

    On the morning of January 9th, I was three and a half chapters in the hole. Class started on the 10th. And pressure, I’ve come to realize, is an excellent motivator. I didn’t want Darkmore hanging over my head when class started. So, by a lot of willpower, and maybe a few bottles of Mio Energy mixed into a metric ton of water, the ending to Darkmore came out of my brain and onto the page.

    Is it the right ending? Maybe. Is it a better ending? No doubt. The new interpretation of the ending was based on comments from my critique group and made me realize, Sevon and Jack made it out of their ordeal much too easily initially. Now, everyone has been touched, changed, altered, or has a whole new outlook based on the outcome. Even the social classes of the kingdom of Darkmore ends up forever changed.

    I made the executive decision to mostly close off the story to the opportunity of a sequel. There is a possibility for one but it will more or less be a story within the same universe and not necessarily the same characters. There’s a few breadcrumbs dropped in here and there of those that could have stories. Sevon’s parents Anna Maria and Louis is a potential story I’m seriously considering. How did they meet? What adversities did they face? How did Sevon get in the picture? Jack’s brother and sister-in-law, Kaltag and Mirabelle, have a story of how they got to such a level of mutual adoration of one another. What did they face? Bianca and Chaney, the captain and second of Sevon’s royal guard, have their own remarkable history.There’s potential for three interlinking prequels right there. That’s not counting potential future trials and tribulations for Jack and Sevon down the road.

    I feel I’ve learned a lot more with this round of revision. I’ve learned more about the characters and about my writing. I’ve picked up a few new methods along the way. Such as jotting down beats to scenes as suggested by Rachel Aaron on her blog. Still figuring out how to work in a 10k word day without killing my life. But jotting down a loose road map to the final battle really saved my bacon when it came to crunch time!

    I’ve also experimented with eliminating thought verbs as Chuck Palahniuk explained here via la vie boheme and according to the critique group, while my work wasn’t shabby before, it’s definitely had quite a bit of a power-up.

    Now, all that’s on the menu is tweaking the ending and making sure that my sentences aren’t total gibberish. You try avoiding ‘was’ and ‘is’ usage and watch your sentences go pear-shaped. Or sentences that turn… how shall we say… A little too abstract and expressionistic? Or better yet, too freaking obtuse when you’re trying to choreograph a final battle. :|

    And then I get to go for round two with this thing, and a final round three. I’m giving myself only three times with this and then I’m shipping it out. I don’t want to be trapped in revision hell for the rest of my life.

    In two weeks, I dust 10-9 off and take a look at it again. I already have some pretty drastic measures planned. The thing is 91k at current. That’s a bit unwieldy for a romance novel. Some things are going to have to get cut and cut hard.

    Anyway. My class is about to start and I’ve got ten minutes to edit and post this. Whee~


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  2. Singing The Melody Of My Greatest Hit

    November 6, 2011 by Megs



    The melody of my greatest hit in question is ‘I’m So Far Off My Outline.’ I’m up to Chapter 15 and while events are occurring at their appointed time, I’ve made such a gigantic mess I’ve chosen to plow through and not backpedal.

    In a moment of brilliance, I’ve discovered a light at the end of the tunnel. You see, Darkmore has six different outlines. And I kept all of them. The outline I have been working off is called Outline 5-A. Because Outline 5 wasn’t doing it for me. In pretty much ignoring everything Outline 5-A said at this current point in the story but remembering it sounded vaguely like another outline I had done, I went digging.

    And I found the file called Outline 6. And everything I had reworked was all there as well as a road map on what to do next. Halle-freaking-lujah!

    Problem: In initially keeping 60% of the book, which honestly is kind of unheard of anyway, I’m now basically keeping about 20%. But that small smidgeon I kept has been reordered and all the dialogue rewritten.

    And I’m actually okay with this. I realize I’m forging it into something stronger and less… wimpy. I’ve raised the stakes exponentially for all sides because it makes no sense for a battle to be largely one sided. It makes no sense for Sevon to magically outwit the villain and the villain to accept his fate like a placid sheep. It has to be a fight. It has to leave a mark. Sevon, Jack, and everyone else that assists them have to be forever changed by the enormity of what they’ve done. They can’t just pull out a roll of Mentos, smile, and that makes everything All Okay™.

    Editing is not about playing it safe. It’s not about correcting the spelling, adding a comma, and calling it a day. It’s about killing your darlings and forging their corpses in the literary bellows into a weapon that cleaves the imagination into thousands of possibilities.

    I have Ace of Cakes Rock Star Duff Goldman in my head that says “Never play it carefully and safe. Dumb and dangerous is the way to go.”

    Let’s get dangerous. Rock on.


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  3. Brought To You By Canada Dry and Ritz

    August 9, 2011 by Megs

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    On Friday, I got the stomach flu. Here I am on Tuesday evening still getting over it.

    Thankfully, I had just enough clarity to finish the first round of Darkmore markups. Save the beginning that pretty much needs a clean sweep, and the ending that has to be totally redone, I’m pleased that at least 70% of the book is not an utter disaster and salvageable.

    Once again in my marking of the pages, I feel Darkmore might have crossed a line in being a little too naughty. Of course, considering the publisher I’m aiming it towards, this is not a big deal. But taste has prevailed to lighten up on the frequency that Sevon loses her clothes. I must be getting old. *laughs*

    Just because the frequency is adjusted, the intensity will likewise be adjusted for the moments that remain.

    The way I think of it, and I could be a total mutant in this, is to me… A story is like a video game. And now everyone that doesn’t play video games goes buh? It’s like this… In a video game you spend hours or even a day or two building your experience or trying to defeat a dungeon or boss or what have you. At the end of this grind, you are rewarded with a breathtaking artistic animation of your characters doing awesome stuff. This animation lasts only a few minutes, and then it’s back to grinding through dungeons to earn another one.

    A novel is not that much different. You ‘grind’ through chapters of plot, or spots that make you think too much, or spots that if the characters don’t shut up and suck face you’re going to hit the bottle… And then poof. They kiss. They disrobe. And then you get to see the characters do stuff.

    From an erotic romance writer perspective, that it my ‘reward’ for ‘grinding’ through the plot. For different genres, the reward is different things. For a thriller, it might be a shoot ‘em up car chase. For a mystery, it might be the intrepid hero having a breakthrough moment in the case. For a fantasy, it might be the elven heroine returning to her glorious homeland.

    I also get that with too many ‘rewards’ especially with the genre I write, takes on a whole other skeezy connotation. Too much, and you’ve got one extreme. Too little to none at all? Could actually work just fine. You just need a plot intriguing enough that people don’t notice what’s missing. Or on the other hand… Promise the reward and not give it? That’s just cruel and cheap.

    A reader bought your book. That reader wants to see the characters do stuff, or get in car chases, or find the clue, or visit the fantastic homeland.

    Reward your readers once in a while and toss ‘em a bone. Just don’t toss ‘em too many. Make ‘em work for it. They have to level up their Limit Breaks first.


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  4. By My Calculations… Whups!

    July 12, 2011 by Megs



    For those of you that have no idea the point of any flavor of NaNoWriMo is to write 50k in a month. No prob! 50k is a ‘shorter’ young teen novel (Think Sweet Valley High or Babysitter’s Club), or the length of the Great Gatsby if you prefer.

    So I’m plugging away on Americana Fairytale and I cross into 25k and do my happy Snoopy Dance. But as I’m drifting off the peaceful land of sleep, I realize, AF is going to be short of it’s 70k ideal. By a lot. It stands a strong probability of falling short of 50k. Kind of need 50k to ‘win’ NaNo. It’s the rules.

    By my current calculations I’m starting Chapter 19 tonight out of 33 with 14 chapters left to write. I’m more than halfway through the story. And even if the final fourteen chapters run around 1.5k like they typically do that only gives me 46k. Oops. That’s not bad but is potentially limiting to only the eBook Market. Which that isn’t the end of the world but I’m going to have to dig around the market a little bit for leads.

    Overall, AF is a fun little goofnut of a story. It makes me smile. I like the cast. I even like the villain unlike Darkmore’s Dominic who creeped me out. Out of all of them, Corentin’s kind of a welcome surprise in his development. As much as it’s Taylor’s story, it’s his too. Considering for the last three, technically four chapters Taylor has been a bit indisposed so Corentin’s had to be a strong enough character to carry the scene.

    And while the easy answer is ‘He’s your character! You can do what you’d like with him!’ True! Wholeheartedly agree. For me, the possibility of a character being able to behave a certain way has to be with them from the beginning even it’s not obvious in their introduction. More like the trait to do X, Y, Z thing has to be in your head somewhere in some measure before your character says their first line. While you may not totally know what said trait is at the time it does rise from the stew of the story. Hello, Character Development.

    I’ve never been a believer that characters are separate entities of me and they do what they like. I created them. I put words in their mouths. I march them about on a grand adventure while linked to marionette strings. You may not have a full character concept in your head at the time of the first draft, but it evolves as you go. It’s not your character sitting across from you telling you their story. It’s from within you. Besides, an apparition of a character whispering to me innermost thoughts is kind of creepy idea.

    Corentin’s kind of had an Evolve As He Goes character concept. For having a fairly ridiculous Romance Novel style name that I was feeling iffy about– after all I had picked in in three seconds consideration… Now I can’t imagine him with any other name or attitude.

    Back to the trenches for me. Even if I’m likely not going to be down there much longer. *laughs*


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  5. Try, Try Again…

    June 12, 2011 by Megs

    On Thursday, June 9th, my anthology story Perfect 10 was rejected by the publisher. It’s my second ever rejection and sure enough won’t be my last. Granted I was a little discouraged for about a day, but now it’s back to the salt mines.

    I decided on the following day I’d allow myself 24-hours of wallowing in my self-pity, and then I’d get the hell over myself. Granted by the time I had gone to bed I was already feeling better and ready to go get’em again.

    I’m clearly aware rejection is really nothing personal. The editors are just doing their jobs. While a fuzzy, semi-accurate statistic writing is 99.9% rejection with .1% WOOHOO. Granted while it doesn’t suck any less it’s all in the name of the game.

    Likewise, I kind of realized a little too late where I might have possibly screwed up. I didn’t ask the editor as she’s rather busy and that’s perfectly copacetic. But I reviewed my submission packet and did a whole bunch of Head Meet Desk. The prime offender is my synopsis once again sounded like a dry academic paper. Granted, I didn’t know do not do this until I looked it up while revising the 10-9 synopsis. And generally? They read the synopsis first. And if it doesn’t cut it? They don’t even bother with your story.

    The good news in all this at least the 10-9 synopsis rocks. Indeed it is written in the tone of the story. As it should be. And now I know what to do for Perfect 10.

    Furthermore for Perfect 10, it does not mean this story is virtually dead in the water. I can send it out to other places. Also, perhaps with some consideration, expand upon it because the world, concept, and characters were really kind of interesting. I had said I’d like to do more with them.

    Nathan Bansford has a brilliant article on dealing with rejection, and honestly the photo for the post made me giggle.

    This is not the end of the road, or the end of the world. Try, try again…


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  6. New Toys: Photo Expose!

    June 4, 2011 by Megs

    So now that my Arc by Staples has oodles of content in it I’d like to show you lovely folks how I have mine set up.

    My Arc once again is the Junior half-size with expansion discs, dividers, task pads, project pads, to-do pads, and note pads. I set up mine based on first the portability of it and with stationery I use every day in three different items. Such as I had a pad just for to-do lists. Why use three different things instead of consolidating?

    A cookie to anyone that can make out my handwriting at all. I can read it! Easily! Can you?


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  7. Organized Juggling

    May 27, 2011 by Megs

    And now for a more coherent followup post!

    First off, for me now it feels like the ball is really rolling. I’ve taken that step and now I’m sending stuff out. I’m still waiting to hear if it’s a yea or a nay on Perfect 10, but now I’ve got 10-9 out there in the works once again. To go with a metaphor, it’s like I’m juggling balls. One ball is Writing, another is Editing, and another is College. I pretty much got it down with juggling Writing and College. I’m okay at Writing, College, and Editing, but not perfect. But now that I’m back to juggling just two balls Writing and Editing, I add a new ball called Submitting.

    When I started this whole mess, I just had 10-9. I’d edit it up, polish it up, send it out, and wait. Now, I realize I can’t just wait I gotta keep on trucking. Like my plan to at least get into the first draft stage of two books a year is finally getting into a rhythm. Technically, it’s a book I start in November, and a book I start in February. My Working Year is a little wonky to the Gregorian calendar.

    This year I’m trying to be different and draft something starting in July which will bring me to three book drafts a year if I can keep it consistent. Of course in with this I’m trying to teach myself how to juggle editing and writing at the same time. Part of my plan while working on the new book is to work in Darkmore editing. Right now, I’m slowly reading through Darkmore and I’m pleasantly surprised I do not want to shuck it in a fire with its miserable earlier version.

    I have charts for how all of this stuff fits together. To-Do lists. A dry erase board full of notes. Scratch pads on my desk for ideas that come to me for other stuff now, now, now! I am so organized yet make plenty of room for organic thinking I wonder what planet I was abducted to. I am obviously not the child my mother raised.

    My little product plug of the day is the Arc customizable notebooks by Staples.

    I have decided my Moleskines are for actual drafting of story stuff because I have no entirely easy way to find where I had handwritten an outline, or ideas for scene, or a character concept even though I color code the corner of the pages. The color code system is actually to denote each entry is separate and where one ends and the other begins.

    I had looked at the Arc notebooks back in March but refrained because of The Birthday Fairy coming in April. I got a Staples gift card for my birthday but it just sat in my wallet waiting to be used. Yesterday I bought my Arc. It’s a junior size, with expansion discs, section dividers, a project pad, a to-do pad, ruled paper, and task pads I can’t squeeze in there yet. Today, I have no idea where this thing has been my whole life.

    On the project section, I have the books I’m doing with basic notes. On the to-do list, I have things I have to do (well. duh.)  and steps I have to take on the books. The ruled paper is for extended notes/outlines/scene ideas what have you. All of it I can actually take out and rearrange how I wish. So, I want all my Darkmore stuff together? With a few clicks, I’m done. It’s like… What we called in art school a character bible. This? This is a writing bible. It’s portable, it’s sturdy, and it has everything when carrying my laptop would just be a hassle.


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  8. Book Cooking

    April 28, 2011 by Megs

     

    A Heap of As (represented by the esteemed scotch bonnet pepper)

    For starters, sometime last year when I breaking into editing 10-9 and looking up tips on how to go about it, I found a widespread reminder of ‘Watch for overused words!’ And I said huh what are these overused words dear helpful websites? So once again, poking around the internet to see what fell out I found a list of overused words over here on the blog My Writing Life. Sure, it’s a post from 2008, but a lot of the My Writing Life blog I’ve found particularly useful!

     

    There are other sites with lists of overused words and some are so comprehensive it boggles the mind. A certain list I located I stared at it wondering if the author recommends not to use these words then… What do you use? Since some of them are quite vital to regular sentence structure. See an example list here on the Random Thoughts blog!

    Note the word and on the list. I’d be hard pressed to find an alternative to and beside as well as which is also an overused term.

    Common thoughts for the word as is most first time writers overuse the word a lot. I confess I was particularly guilty when I wrote the first (awful) draft of Darkmore, then known as The Promise. I mean… When you do a Find/Replace in your document and see a certain word like as appears 30 to 40 times for every page of your 417 page document? Yeah. That’s a problem. Some you just have to let go. Like and. I can live with and. It’s a very clear and concise word that doesn’t force me to think too hard when reading.

    For example: He drank coffee and ate donuts.

    Makes perfect sense. It’s simple and I get it right off the bat.

    But then you have this example: He drank coffee as well as ate donuts.

    I mean… Yeah sure it’s kind of poetic and lyrical, but imagine that in every sentence instead of and. That’s a whole lotta as.

    Like Cookie Monster says these days now that he eats vegetables ‘Cookies (AKA As) are a sometimes food.’ As an aside I am also in the camp Cookie Monster eating veggies is just plain wrong. But imagine and being a vegetable and as being cookie and you basically got it.

    And is salt and pepper of your story. As is the turmeric or other exotic spice in you pantry. Granted you can have too much salt but too much turmeric, cumin, or scotch bonnet peppers for that matter can ruin a dish. You can counterbalance salt. The only way you can counterbalance too many scotch bonnet peppers is the garbage can.

    I’m not saying avoid the dreaded word as much as possible… But use it sparingly. In my experience with this current round of revisions with 10-9, as appears all of 57 times in the span of 92K. Not bad. In the first draft phase? It appeared at least 3,000 times. That’s a punishing amount of scotch bonnet.

    What are your thoughts on the lists? Are they useful? Or are some of the words on the list just ridiculous? Does anyone have an alternate to the word and? Inquiring minds wanna know!


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  9. Filling the Brainpan

    March 25, 2011 by Megs

    For my Fiction Writing class it was required that I attended an author Q&A and a reading later that night. The author in question was George Saunders, writer of Braindead Megaphone and short story author for the New Yorker and GQ. I’m really not entirely sure what I was expecting, but what I got was a genuinely funny guy who was down to earth and pretty much had a story for everything.

    As he talked and offered tips to the crowd, ideas started rolling. It was oddly completely convenient the tips he was offering either applied to my current status of my class or my edits with 10-9.

    One tip my Fiction Writing class could really take note of is not to try to inject some kind of intellectual message, philosophy, or some kind of meaning as you’re writing. Usually the meaning and message are discovered long after the story is written and when the author wasn’t thinking of the message at all.

    Like the story you go in intending to tell is not the story you end up with. What the story later means is not the way it’s made. Writing is organic. Let it take you wherever it leads.

    Another tip really got my brain rolling on how to make a scene come alive. I had read about doing so in Fire in Fiction but regret not trying it out when I first read it. The tip in question is so simple: Find the one obscure detail that paints the whole picture. In Fire in Fiction it’s five details, but same deal.

    Like… Say you are in a group of a hundred people and you’re asked to describe a third world market. Pretty much everyone would do it the same way. Butchered pigs hanging on meat hooks, buzzing flies, stacks of melons, little old ladies in colorful native garb… You get it. You picture a random third world market like you see in the movies with very stereotypical details.

    Saunders mentioned he read in a Hemingway interview that Hemingway used the trick. The detail he found about the market was a group of men preparing for a cock-fight. One of the men put the rooster’s face to his mouth and puffed a breath down the bird’s throat to aggravate it and make it fight harder.

    Look there in reading that previous bit about the cock-fight… Now you see that market don’t you? Now you’re there in Jakarta on a Sunday. Now you smell it. Now you taste it. Now you feel the sticky humidity on your skin and your clothes itching.

    Maybe I’m easily amused, but my mind was pretty much blown by the concept to see it in practice.

    Particularly with 10-9 I’m dealing with this setting of a high-rise tower and I was struggling for a way to really paint the scene. There’s only so many times I can mention metal walls, diamond plate floors, and honeycombed halls. What comes to mind? Random Sci-Fi Military Installation #367. It could be the USS Enterprise, it could be the Death Star, it could be Ice Station Zebra, it could even be an oil rig for all we know.

    But then you stack on a detail like the walls sighing with the breath of the psychic girl who powers it you kinda see a little somethin’-somethin’. Like no right angles. The catwalks are winding like an anthill and not perfect straight lines. The place hums not like a ringing in your ears but like someone tapped a tuning fork and stuck it in your brain. Your head feels light. Your skin tingles with all the pure oxygen you’re inhaling. You smell that sickening sweet antiseptic and it sours on your tongue.

    You’re there now, right?

    Now that my tank is full of thoughts and new things to try I’m ready to tackle this ending. :D


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  10. Romancing the Soul Crush: The Fine Art of Critique Groups

    March 4, 2011 by Megs

    I will make no bones about on my journey as a writer critique groups totally get my motor running. I’ve always wanted a good solid one I could turn to. I’ve even tried running one but apparently I’m quite the scary leader all because I tried to run the thing like a college class with a very low bullshit tolerance. It was not a ‘low bullshit tolerance’ because of content it was a low tolerance due to lack of effort. It’s like how can the group crit your stuff if you’re not even going to produce stuff to crit? Really it’s very mind numbingly simple.

    I’ve mentioned before, to be a writer… generally… yenno… You have to actually write and not wax poetic on the novel you’re going to write someday. Anyway, I could rant on that all over again if I let myself.

    Today, today the commentary is critique groups.

    As a part of a college course I’m taking in Fiction Writing, we have a critique segment of the class. Two students are critiqued every class period and so on down the line. You have your hidden gems, your diamonds in the rough, and then you have people that let’s be honest have no business telling stories. Those are usually the ones that are already planning how to spend their millions before they’ve even learned how to make a coherent sentence.

    They want the attention and are not willing to put in the hours to learn the craft as pointed out in the Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass.

    I’m slowly but surely making my way through Fire in Fiction and I’m certainly learning a lot. I’ve learned about myself that I’m already doing some good things naturally but I’m not pushing them far enough. I love learning. I adore stuffing my gray matter with knowledge.

    Anyway… Crit groups. Particularly my Fiction class where I’m put in a group of folks I don’t necessarily jive with already. But that’s college. You roll the dice.

    So you’ve got folks that aren’t necessarily so great but they’re trying. But on the same vein they’re overly confident and think they’ve nailed it in one draft. Even I know it’s impossible for me to do that. Wouldn’t it be glorious if it happened like that!

    I confess, I can be a little overly honest in my critiques. I have a power for horrifying bluntness but I try to be nice. Sometimes it works. And sometimes I come off like Simon Cowell. Uh… Oops.

    But see… See… I expect when my work is up for review it gets that same kind of honesty. I need to be directly told what’s working, what isn’t, and how to address it. I benefit from that kind of review. I need to be told in clearly where the bear shits.

    It could be my art school background. More than likely it is. With critiques every week and having your soul utterly crushed and expected to say ‘Yes, sir! May I have another!’ or what you’re really thinking of ‘Hit me again, Ike!‘ But in an artistic field you learn very quickly to leave your precious tiny feelings at the door and basically be gasp a professional.

    You get a shitty crit? You smile. Nod. Thank the editor for their honesty. Ask how to improve. And for the love of god don’t defend your work. If it’s not their thing, it’s not their thing. Pleading with them will not help your case or get you employed any faster. Or at all.

    Today? In my class, we had our first meltdown. An attention seeking author that thought she had it all figured out and she didn’t. At all.

    I have to give credit to my class for finally being more open and honest in their crits. They’ve mostly tip-toed for a while and didn’t want to hurt feelings. I was concerned because I was wondering when my turn comes up I wouldn’t find the kid gloves any way useful. Ass pats and kind nods of ‘It’s good!’ doesn’t help me learn anything.

    So back to this woman… We basically spelled it all out for her. Our professor thought it was quite a brilliant piece because he was certain the heroine who was trying to protect her son from his mafia don grandfather was just crazy. That there was no mafia. That all of her terror was for no reason. Turns out… Nope. The heroine wasn’t crazy.

    Yet the reader had no vested interest to care about this heroine… And my great Simon Cowell styled comment of the day: It was about as suspenseful as a grocery list.

    Oof. Ow.

    The author? You could watch her totally shut down in the crit. When it was her turn to speak and the professor asked if she had anything to say she just shrugged and muttered it was ‘okay.’ I actually felt so terrible for her I felt the urge to apologize.

    But that’s kind of how it is. You suck it up. You go into a crit group knowing your first draft isn’t your best work. You take one on the chin if it’s not all that great or you at least get a fresh perspective.

    If you go into a crit group already plotting how to spend your millions when you’re very new at writing… Be prepared for The Soul Crush.

    Hell, even I don’t ruminate on how to spend my millions. I don’t fantasize about myself on the New York Times Bestseller list… No matter how nice that is! All I’m focused on is putting one word next to the other, learning more about the craft, building my vocabulary, making stories… And hopefully writing something good enough for a contract.

    I’m also very well prepared for my punch in the face. Because my turn my critique is this coming Tuesday.


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