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Inspiration!
For me, inspiration can come from a lot of different things. A song that I connect with can establish the whole mood or concept of a manuscript, a movie with an element I want to tweak can do it too. Sometimes a character just pops into my head and their story just sort of fills […]
Read the Rest »The Rancher’s Convenient Mistress Exerpt First Draft
Chapter One Acacia Masterson bit out a word that would have gotten her mouth washed out if she’d been in her mother’s presence. Of course, if she’d stayed near her mother she wouldn’t be in her current situation. She turned and faced the gorilla-man that was escorting her from the livestock pavilion and thrust her […]
Read the Rest »Revisions, Revisions!
I’m a pro at revisions by now. Not so much at getting them done right the first time, or fifth time, but at receiving revision letters. And, as hard as it can be sometimes, it has been a valuable experience for me as a writer. I read that 80-90% of revision letters from publishers are […]
Read the Rest »What to Write?
The answer to this question can be pretty basic. Write what you like, write what you like to read. That’s true, to an extent. You may love romance, and within romance there are a lot of different categories and subgenres. So where to go from there? When I went on my hunt to decide what […]
Read the Rest »Writing From a *gasp* Practical Standpoint
Writers. We’re an interesting bunch of people. I took creative writing in college and was exposed to an interesting group. More than half of the class of thirty, including myself, were left handed. Lefties are notoriously scattered and a little on the ‘eccentric’ side of things. Again, being a lefty, I’m familiar. And if you’re […]
Read the Rest »The Journey to Publication…so far.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I’ve been writing short stories ever since I learned the fine art of writing dialogue when I was in the second grade. However, I had a serious aversion to finishing anything. There were countless beginnings and zero endings, because a part of me knew that if I ever […]
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