This Week's Topic: My Revision Process Though Jeffe and I have different methods of drafting, my revision process is pretty much the sa...

  This Week's Topic: Series--How Do I Know When One Has Played Out? To know when a series has gone stale, it helps to understand what ma...

  As a fantasy romance writer (now called romantasy, I guess?) today's topic is near and dear to my heart. While love scenes aren't ...

 This Week's Topic: Has My Writing Changed? How? I'd like to think my writing has improved, though I suppose that's a bit subjec...

This week at the SFF Seven, we're asking each other if our writing changed - and, if so, how? It might seem disingenuous to say this, bu...

  This Week's Topic: What Website Do I Use The Most While Writing? Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary You keep using that word. I do not ...

 Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is what to do when you're stuck. Stuck writing, I presume, since other kinds of stuck aren't r...

  This Week's Topic: Beginnings--What are my principles for crafting them? Regular readers of this blog know that the beginning of the b...

  Photo by Patrick Baum on Unsplash I've always had a fascination with nuns. Growing up in a large French-Canadian family, I viewed my ...

 A praying mantis friend found her way onto my skirt the other day. Just one of many special blessings coming my way lately! Our topic at th...

  This Week's Topic: The Most Unpublishable Niche Story I Ever Wrote Was... First, I ought to be very clear that the story was unpublish...

 This Week's Topic: How to Find Inspiration When the Story Won't Come to Me I'm the sort for whom the broad strokes of the story...

  This Week's Topic: Do I Read in the Genre I Write? Absolutely. I like to keep abreast of evolving reader expectations, emerging storyt...

 This Week's Topic: Writing Better Heroes -- 3 Traits of a Non-Alpha-Hole Hero Oh, how I loves me a capable, confident, and compassionat...

  This Week's Topic: What's the most useful resource I have for writing? Is it too glib to say it's Merriam-Webster Online ? Bel...

  This Week's Topic: Emotion -- Do I have to feel the exact emotion I'm writing? Have to?  Nah. Probably shouldn't, to be frank....

 This Week's Topic: What is my greatest writing challenge and how do I manage it? My greatest writing challenge, eh? { Ponders long list...

This Week's Topic: Pinch Points  Do I plan them/use them as foreshadowing, or do I just let the story flow? Hello, skeletal plotter here...

Over the years, my habits for managing my word count have changed. What works one season doesn't always work another. But, even so, ther...

  This Week's Topic: Managing Word Count Do I write to hit a certain number? Do I have a chapter/scene word allotment? I have daily goa...