by Mel | Jul 22, 2008 | Writing
Usually the girls give (or demand) a bit of down time between books but for the last little while this one’s been prowling around my head and the heroine hasn’t been all that happy about being told to wait and kept right on whispering in my ear. So I guess...
by Mel | Jul 8, 2008 | Cool stuff
Can someone please explain to me why this darn book, which insisted on a long and arduous hunt for witchy demon techno music and was very picky about what it would accept in the course of said long arduous soundtrack hunt, suddenly insists on nothing but Dixie Chicks?...
by Mel | Jun 13, 2008 | Writing
I’m circling my book, looking for the other angle. At the moment, it doesn’t feel quite right, it’s not quite balanced or something. For a start, I think I need a new opening scene. Which I have an idea for but I’m not sure yet that it’s...
by Mel | May 7, 2008 | Life, Writing
Anyone else have clumsy times? I’m usually relatively unklutzy (apart from my unerring ability to cork my thigh on the pointy end of my bedframe at least once a fortnight) but in the last twenty four hours I’ve broken a bowl, a glass and two jars of spices...
by Mel | Apr 13, 2008 | Writing
So this afternoon I settled down to read some of Wolf 2 and go over my notes from the last pass on structural stuff. Which was fine. Then I did the Sunday afternoon read for a bit and meditate. Of course, the girls being contrary beasts suddenly decided that maybe,...