I now have 5 novels under my belt (3 published, 2 in the queue) and I've started to notice common threads that have revealed things I hadn't before noticed about myself. First, I tend to write my MC as a blonde female. It's not a bad thing - it's because I'm blonde. The MC in … Continue reading Getting to Know Yourself through Writing
Tag: woes of a writer
Comparisons
I've been having a rough weekend. I'm drafting Devil's Blood 4 while reading the super awesome Throne of Glass series. I love the series so much - it does everything right. It's made me fall in love with each character in turn, with the narration, with the world, with how the information has been dribbled … Continue reading Comparisons
Words to Avoid
Have I done a post about this? I don't know. I've been revising this weekend, and I was startled at how many times I used the word "just." It's not that "just" doesn't have a place. It does. Just not in every third sentence. It's one of those words that we use in our daily … Continue reading Words to Avoid
