Happy Birthday & Updates!
Today my wonderful husband turns 37. His grandmother asked us today how we got to that age already. Good question… 36 didn’t feel all that different from 20 really. So Happy Birthday to him! We’re having a fairly quiet day Read More…
Guest Post on Dialogue
I’ve got a writing/craft related guest post on dialogue over on Trollking.co.uk. The article’s called Siri-ous Dialogue & focuses on how dialogue can help push action forward. Quite a bit on show vs. tell as that goes hand-in-hand with dialogue Read More…
Amaskan’s Blood Contest
Adelei–member of the Order of Amaska and main character in Amaskan’s Blood–invites you to face the trials. Test your contest entering ability now for a chance to win one of nine prizes! Open to US and Canadian residents only.Enter to Read More…
Scrivener Saturday: Revision Mode
This week’s Scrivener Saturday is on Revision Mode, which has more purposes than just revision. TIP #5: To get to revision mode, go to Format–>Revision Mode, and then choose a revision level (first, second, third, fourth, or fifth). The purpose of Read More…
Class-M Exile Excerpt
The Class-M Exile Excerpt is now up in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. You can download it here. If you like what you read, there are two ways to get the full 80 page novella: 1) You can Join the Read More…
Top 10 Text-to-Speech Fails
When I’m editing writing, what helps the most is to have Scrivener read out loud my novel. Having a computer read it, finds all those annoying typos or mistakes that my brain auto-corrects no matter how many times I read Read More…
What I’m… Updates
It’s that time of the month where I’ve updated the What I’m Reading, What I’m Writing, and What I’m Watching for those curiously inclined to check. 🙂 Lots of unique reading, zombies, and murder going on! I also added a Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Penny Arcade
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Penny Arcade The Game–Gamers vs. Evil. If you’ve followed my weekly tabletop reviews, you know I’m a fan of deck-builders. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, Deck Building is a mechanism where players begin Read More…
Scrivener Saturday: Backups to Dropbox
This week’s Scrivener Saturday is on Backups. If I had a dollar for every time an author lost their project/novel, I’d be rich. We’ve all lost something due to hard drive crashes or corrupt USB drives. One of the things Read More…
Novella Done!
Members of the mailing list will rejoice (as well as others) that I just finished the promised story, Class-M Exile. It morphed from a short story to an 18,000 word novella. I still have some editing yet to do on Read More…
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