It’s a date

It’s not firm enough to announce yet, but I’ve set a date for the release of my next novel. Yay!!! This sounds very exciting – and it is! But there’s a lot of work to do before publication. In addition to my part I’m hiring a cover designer and an editor, so until I get…

So far, so good

So far outlining seems like a mostly good thing. Last weekend I wrote a complete outline of the short story I’ve been working on (Bewitchery). At the time I thought two things: whew, what a lot of work! 🙂 and: wow, I addressed all the questions I’d have while writing the story. How awesome is…

Planning to finish

I used to start writing stories when I knew the beginning (kind of hard to ‘start’ otherwise), and sometimes the middle or end – but never both. I wrote a lot of great story beginnings, but found I’d almost always have no idea what was supposed to happen next. I have a nice collection of…