by Mel | Apr 11, 2008 | Cool stuff, Writing
Woohoo! It may be the shortest first draft ever but it’s now the shortest completed first draft ever and the last bit made me cry so it can’t be all bad. Apparently letting the girls sleep on it last night was a good thing. I’m done, done, done and...
by Mel | Mar 29, 2008 | Cool stuff
I used to write with candles burning all the time…a habit I should resurrect. Pretty candles courtesy of the VT.
by Mel | Mar 16, 2008 | Cool stuff, Writing
You know, writing and the way your brain puts together a story can be endlessly intriguing. Like today. I came back to a scene that was stalling a few days ago, to tweak it because I tweaked an earlier scene. And this is a scene I wrote the start of maybe three or...
by Mel | Mar 10, 2008 | Cool stuff, Friends who rock, Writing
Today is the International Day of Awesomeness so we should all go out and be awesome. Or stay in and be awesome if it’s as hot as it is here. So a big AWESOME to talented Aussie writer Alison Stuart who won a EPPIE for her historical romance By the Sword. Yay!...
by Mel | Mar 7, 2008 | Cool stuff, Random thoughts
Congrats to my Aunt Pam, who is one of the five HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development recipients! Yay! Interesting this hereditary stuff…though we write very different things, there are obviously scribes and scribblers in the family somewhere. I...
by Mel | Mar 6, 2008 | Cool stuff, Writing
And here’s another tweak. I decided the cute angel/demon covers really were too thin and I don’t really need two letter sized notebooks at the moment. So I just trimmed the A4 angel/demon covers to letter height and slipped them inside the clear Circa...
