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R.Q. Woodward

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2017 in Review

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

December 27, 2017 R.Q. Woodward1 Comment

October Wrap Up

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

November 2, 2017 R.Q. Woodward3 Comments

Loving my Distractions

Maybe I’ve been lazy lately. Maybe I’m taking a much needed break from editing. Here is a quick update on what I’ve been up to recently: I read two books. One of them was The Last Trade by Joe Hart, which I give FIVE stars. It is a fast-paced action thriller with a tough and awesome… Read More Loving my Distractions

October 18, 2016 R.Q. Woodward1 Comment

Revising & Reading my Manuscript

  I recently completed a major revision project. I’ve been working on the first novel I wrote, and wow, what a task! I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it’s surprising how long it took. I got so lost in the project that I disappeared from social media for several days. That’s why I haven’t blogged in a while. Currently, I… Read More Revising & Reading my Manuscript

September 4, 2016 R.Q. Woodward3 Comments

How to NOT Go Insane While Editing Your Novel

Unfortunately, you can’t be a writer without doing some amount of editing. Even if you decide to hire developmental, copy, and line editors, you are still going to be a part of the process. Unless you hire a ghost writer, you are going to edit at some point or another. Editing isn’t terrible.  It’s not. When you… Read More How to NOT Go Insane While Editing Your Novel

July 25, 2016September 4, 2016 R.Q. Woodward10 Comments

Book Review – The Last Girl by Joe Hart

I loved this book. I couldn’t put it down. I definitely recommend it as an action packed read. The Last Girl is a dystopian thriller by author Joe Hart. Here is the summary: A mysterious worldwide epidemic reduces the birthrate of female infants from 50 percent to less than 1 percent. Medical science and governments… Read More Book Review – The Last Girl by Joe Hart

July 21, 2016 R.Q. Woodward2 Comments

Let me be your Beta Reader

A Beta Reader, according to Wikipedia, is: a non-professional reader who reads a written work, generally fiction, with the intent of looking over the material to find and improve elements such as grammar and spelling, as well as suggestions to improve the story, its characters, or its setting. Beta reading is typically done before the story is released… Read More Let me be your Beta Reader

July 12, 2016 R.Q. Woodward10 Comments

Time Travel Headaches

Reading a story about time travel and writing a story about time travel are completely different things. Yesterday, I was in LOVE with my time travel story because I was reading and editing it. Today, I have a headache, a very big time travel headache. I’m not confused about when things happen in my story…not yet.… Read More Time Travel Headaches

July 11, 2016 R.Q. Woodward4 Comments

From Magic to Time Travel

I’ve been stretching my sci-fi writing wings today. I started working on a story involving time travel that I initially began last December, but never finished. It was only ever meant to be a short story, but knowing me, I’ll probably have have fifty thousand words written before I’m done with it. I’ve had a lot of… Read More From Magic to Time Travel

July 10, 2016 R.Q. WoodwardLeave a comment

Another Novel in the Bag

I did it! I finished my fourth novel today! I was excited and happy the entire time that I was working on the last chapter and epilogue. As soon as I typed in those final words though, and I realized that I was finished, my stomach plummeted to the ground. I am so depressed. I’m smiling, I’m excited,… Read More Another Novel in the Bag

July 9, 2016 R.Q. Woodward1 Comment

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