outlining

Odds and Ends

Good grief, squiders, I don’t mean to be abandoning you for a WHOLE WEEK. This job transition has been a lot, and to top it off, school is starting right in the middle of it. (I told my old job

July books: 3/6 (Native Star, The Owls’ House, and A Posse of Princesses) Hey, squiders, sorry! Didn’t mean to disappear for two weeks! I wish I could say that I have gotten SO much done in that time, but I

Delving In

Evening, squiders. Last week, with your lovely help (it’s amazing what I can work through as I write things out here on the blog), I decided to leave off the World’s Edge revision until the critique marathon is over and

April, Week 2

Good afternoon, squiders! It’s snowing here after being in the 80s all week. As it does. We’re about halfway done with the month! I think, to be on track for my 25K goal, I should be at…oh, like 11.7K. I’ve

An Exercise in Creative Thinking

Hey-o, squiders. How’s it going? My brain is still in full freak out mode about figuring out the plot order at the beginning of the book, fully convinced this is the hardest thing it has ever had to do, somehow

Killing My Darlings

Hey, squiders. You’ve probably heard the term “kill your darlings” before. Some people take it to mean that you have to get rid of anything you truly love about a story to make it better, but what it really means

WriYe and Pantsing

It’s that time of month. March’s prompt from WriYe reads as such: Planner, pantser or plantser? Why? Okay, quick runthrough for the new people (because we’ve definitely talked about pantsers and planners before)–planners outline before they start writing, pantsers start