Halloween Q & A time! I was tagged by K.A. Dowling and HollieMarie213 for this post. 1. Are you a scaredy cat or a horror aficionado? Scaredy cat! I don’t want dark stuff in my head. This is the result of a less than pleasant dream I had after I binge watched Law and Order SVU… Read More Halloween Q & A
I’ve been slacking off in the blogging realm lately. I have tons of things I want to say, but I just haven’t had the time to write it. I plan to post a book review early next week for an ARC I’m reading, so this post will be devoted to an update on what I’m… Read More My Untitled Rewrite
There are so many things happening RIGHT NOW. I feel like I don’t have time for everything. I don’t even have time for half of everything. So what am I going to do? Take the time to blog about it! 1. My Current WIP I am absolutely in love with my current project! I wrote… Read More Everything RIGHT NOW
Writers usually think about their hook when starting a new story. What interesting, exciting, or captivating thing can they write to best draw the reader into the narrative, to hook them? Starting a book with too much description, either about main characters or setting, is usually a no-no. We don’t want to bore readers with… Read More Description and Visuals
The Fire Queen releases September 26, 2017. It is the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, by Emily R. King. It follows a young warrior queen’s rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers. Religion plays an important part in the stories, since the powers are godly gifts, passed… Read More Book Review: The Fire Queen
I have discovered audiobooks. Meaning, I listened to my very first audiobook last month and am slightly enamored with them already. I don’t regularly read more than one book at a time, unless they are dramatically different. For instance, if one is non-fiction. But now that I’ve discovered audiobooks, I will probably always be reading… Read More Audiobooks and Newborns
I won Camp NaNoWriMo yesterday! I’ve written over 35,000 words in the month of July. My initial goal was higher, but pregnancy brain got the better of me. So I lowered my goal to something more manageable (35k words) and completed it! I feel really good about the progress I’ve made writing The Sword of the… Read More July Writing and Reading Progress
I read The Carver earlier this month and was blown away and honored by the opportunity to interview the book’s author, Jacob Devlin afterward. The Carver is Jacob’s debut novel and the first in a trilogy, set partially in the real world and partially in another where all your favorite fairytales are real. With Ivory… Read More Interview with Jacob Devlin, author of The Carver
I thought I’d share some interesting mathematical facts about planning to write a 50,000 word novel and having an outline of plot points. For my current work in progress, I used the seven point structure: Hook Plot Turn 1 Pinch point 1 Midpoint Pinch point 2 Plot turn 2 Resolution Now, traditionally, these are set… Read More The Mathematics of Writing
This post might seem ridiculous at first glance, but the specifications for each book are actually pretty neat. Scan through and maybe you’ll end up deciding to do your own Princess Book Tag post! Egg Reader tagged me for this post. Angela is a serious bookworm. If you’re looking for a place to find regular… Read More The Princess Book Tag
R.Q. Woodward 