September books: 0/5 (but I’m in the middle of 3) I got the card story outlined, but I did run out of purple cards with this iteration. I may have a plan moving forward. ~*~*~*~*~ ~*~*~*~*~ Hm, I’m out and
Card Story Interlude
August Books: 6/6 (The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society and Murder at Teal’s Pond) Success on the reading front! I won’t update my book list for the month ’til Thursday but maybe I’m caught back up to where I need to
Card Story Part 14 and Engineering is Hard
July books: Still 3/5 (but I foresee finishing a few here shortly) Why is it so hot? auuuuugh ~*~*~*~*~ ~*~*~*~*~ I told you last week a little about my generation ship idea. Well, I have been doing my researches, and,
Card Story Part 13 and I Don’t Mean to Be Ignoring You
July Books: 3/5 (Save the Cat Writes a Young Adult Novel, The Astral Library, and The Dictionary People) On one hand, the summer is going REALLY fast. On the other, it’s been so goshdarn hot that I’m not sad to
The Same But Different
Hi squiders! Happy Friday! School is out, so I hope everyone is up for two months of chaos. My youngest asked if she could give her teacher (the one who had me in for the outlining talk) a copy of
Nanowrimo Comes Earlier Every Year
You know what showed up in my inbox this morning? NaNoWriMo’s preparation workshop for the year. It’s SEPTEMBER. It’s barely MID-SEPTEMBER. What the heck? What happened to waking up on November 1st and going with whatever caught your fancy at
Berries and Elephants
Information comes from the weirdest places sometimes, doesn’t it? Holly Lisle, who is one of my favorite writing teachers, has a saying about berries and elephants. I’m going to massacre it here, but the gist is that how much a
Language Barriers in Speculative Fiction
Hey hey, so apparently I was going to write this post two years ago, got as far as “WOO” and never went back to it. Good job on focusing, me. Language barriers are something common that you find in science
What is Conflict?
We talked about conflict on Tuesday at Storycraft, and I put together an info sheet on the topic, which I thought you guys might like to see. It’s pretty basic–conflict is a wide and varied monstrosity, and you could really
Pantsing vs. Plotting
Sometimes, Squiders, it’s good to go back to the basics. I would divide the writing process into the following steps: Outlining Writing Revising Editing Submission and/or Publication Would you agree with that? The first step of that is (arguably) outlining.
