Category: Writing

  • Writing again, finally

    Writing again, finally

    Holy crap, I’m actually writing again. Here’s a brief pointer post off to the longer post I did about it on angelahighland.info.

  • Writing Process Blog Tour 2014

    Writing Process Blog Tour 2014

    I got tagged for the Writing Process Blog Tour meme going around, so here are my answers! If you’d like to be tagged so I can link folks off to you, let me know!

  • A few words about expectations management

    A few words about expectations management

    Every so often well-meaning family and/or friends ask me questions like “So when do you get to quit your day job?” or “When do you get to be the next Tolkien/J.K. Rowling/Stephanie Meyer/Amanda Hocking/etc.?” Which are lovely questions and I do appreciate the support, but the long and short of it is, the likely answer…

  • Note to my brain: no, you may not write this yet

    Note to my brain: no, you may not write this yet

    Memo to my brain: No, you may NOT write a short story based on the Le Vent du Nord song “Le dragon de Chimay”. No matter how awesome a mental image you have in your head of a dragon breaking out of chains that hold him underground and surging up into the open air in…

  • A character in the making

    A character in the making

    I don’t know who this character is yet, but she’s been lurking in my brain for a while now as I’ve thought about how to do an urban fantasy with an overweight woman as the heroine. I don’t even have a name for her, or any real idea yet of what her story is. But…

  • Possible story for later

    Possible story for later

    I woke up around 6ish or so this morning, conscious of having just interrupted a dream I was having. This happens a lot, but what was unusual about this one was that it didn’t seem to involve me in any way. Rather, it was a bit of what seemed like it was trying to be…