Quick post to share what I accomplished in January and to name some goals for February! January: Writing I wrote 50,000 words of my WIP! It was a struggle there at the end to maintain my quick pace, but thanks to having a shared goal with a few other writers, I was able to see… Read More Hello February
Realized I haven’t blogged in a while, so I thought I’d give a quick update on my WIP and what I’m reading. The Sword of the Witch I’m currently writing draft 1.5 of my story The Sword of the Witch. I wrote 35k words of it last July, but then decided I needed to make… Read More Quick Update
This month, I was thrilled to receive an advanced e-copy of Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Plastic Magian, set to release May 15, 2018. The blurb: Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking—the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so… Read More Book Review: The Plastic Magician
It’s been quite a year! Here’s a wrap up of what I’ve accomplished: Writing Early in the year I completed a 92,000 word YA contemporary fantasy. It needs heavy revision, so I’ll most likely attack it as a rewrite when I come back to it. Then I worked on edits for my fairytale but didn’t… Read More 2017 in Review
This is a follow up to my World Building 101 post. They don’t need to be read in order; the 101, 102, and 103 distinctions were simply the easiest way to differentiate the posts. Two things to keep in mind that will always improve your world building: There is good and bad in everything Everything has… Read More World Building 102
I have to share this amazing excerpt from Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. It makes me want to ponder, discuss, and write! Whether you use it as a writing prompt or a conversation starter, I hope you enjoy: An enemy will almost never be anything except an enemy. All one can do with an enemy is defeat him.… Read More Galvanizing Excerpts – Thrawn
Writing I finished edits on Valiant! I am hoping to query it in December. I wrote a few different synopses for it, but now I think they are all crap. So I wrote a new one: Legend claims that the Verrukin is a monstrous, child-eating beast. Seventeen year old Ardinae isn’t concerned with legends. A… Read More November Wrap Up
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is the best book I’ve read all year. Five stars. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started it, but the book swept me away, immediately and completely. The Description: Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny.… Read More Book Review: The Sun is Also a Star
World building entails many different things, and those things vary from genre to genre and manuscript to manuscript. While some world building advice is universal, other bits are not. This is the first post in a series about world building. I hope to keep them all brief and to the point, but let me know… Read More World Building 101
In the month of October, I read a lot of books and did some writing. Here is my month in review: Writing I wrote around 13,000 words for my contemporary YA fantasy manuscript. This is the one that I’m shifting from 3rd person past tense to 1st person present and condensing down from 180k words.… Read More October Wrap Up
R.Q. Woodward 