Good afternoon, Squiders! We’ll start our next nonfic topic about coming up with ideas and expanding them into something workable next week. I still need to finish outlining the topic before we get started. But, while we’re talking about that,
PPWC Session Wrap-up, Final
Here’s the last PPWC wrap-up post, Squiders, so if you haven’t been digging them, you can rest assured that we will definitely talk about something else next week. Maybe we should a readalong. Haven’t done one of those in a
Guest Post: Writing Process with Erin Zarro
Hey, squiders! Happy Tuesday! Let’s take a break from PPWC and hear how Erin Zarro wrote her latest book, Ever Touched. I love hearing about how other authors work, and I hope you do too! ~*~*~*~*~ Writing Ever Touched was
PPWC Session Wrap-up, Part 2
I always wonder if you can piecemeal PPWC. There’s always notes about what to do if you’re missing a meal (and if you’re at the conference for the whole weekend, why would you? It’s included in the price and the
PPWC Session Wrap-up, Part 1
Good morning, Squiders. I’m back from PPWC, and now that I’ve gotten some sleep, I am vaguely functional again. I’ve gone to PPWC before, and I’ve done conference write-ups after the fact for all of them, so I thought I’d
Off We Go
AH. Hey! At least I’m further along than my sister, because I have a finished costume and a maybe decent query letter? (She’s texting me pics because she’s working on her costume right now.) (And it’s maybe decent because I
Conference Going for the Woefully Unprepared
We’re T-minus 2 days (and some change) until PPWC and I am not ready. It is unlikely I will ever be ready. Especially because I have reached that stage where I know I will never be ready and instead of,
Changing Support Needs
I started writing seriously in 2006, Squiders. I mean, I’d had periods before that–I’d been writing on and off since I was 8, including a fairly prolific time in high school (where I admittedly started a lot of novels I
A Poll, a Conference, and an Update
Can you believe it’s April, squiders? And, yes, I realize that we are halfway through April, which almost makes it worse. At the end of April, I am going to be attending Pike’s Peak Writers Conference (henceforth PPWC). This is
6 Strategies for Consistency
I think this will be the last post for this particular subject matter, Squiders, and I’ll keep the troubleshooting section for the book. Thank you again for working with me on this nonfiction posts. They have been hugely beneficial for
