What’s Your Muse?
What’s your muse? For me, it’s always been music. Music is the most reliable way to tap into the emotions I need to write honestly.
Category: The Editing Process
Finding My Voice (Again)
When it comes to crafting voice, emotion is even more important than technique. You have to be in touch with your MC’s joy and pain.
The Deep Dive: Research
Taking a deep dive into research always helps me craft an authentic voice for my characters, because it gives them the freedom to move through a world in full color.
If you’re comfortable, you’re probably not growing
Rejection is often uncomfortable, but if you’re comfortable you’re probably not growing. Feedback, even when it feels brutal, is essential to improve.
On NaNoWriMo Writing Blocks
You may have heard November is NaNoWriMo month. It’s a stressful, magical time, because you can complete a novel by writing 1,667 words each day, or 50,000 words in a month. For the sake of both productivity and sanity, you must learn to ignore your […]
Writer’s block: Keep the creative juices flowing
The dreaded writer’s block. Most writers experience it at least once, and when it hits it’s deadly. Right now, I’m dealing with a case of editor’s block. To make my deadline, I promised to edit at least ten pages of my MS each day. That’s […]
Never give up: How I found my agent
Last April, I learned valuable pitch conference lessons at the Desert Dreams Writer’s Conference in Phoenix. I left that conference excited to revise my manuscript. My goal was to query as many agents and editors as possible. I thought my revisions would take two or three months. They […]
Writing Contests: Keep calm and try, try again
Reposted from: January 28, 2106 [adrianaloveswriting.wordpress.com] Writing contests are a fun mix of anticipation and terror. To enter, authors submit the first 20 to 30 pages of an MS, say a prayer, and prep for feedback. The top three in the initial round make it to the final […]