I was visiting some favorite blogs today and ran across a great post by Ellis Carrington (see her blog on my list below) called “You Haven’t Got the Balls For It.” It’s a discussion of woman who write male/male romance. It got me thinking about...
I tried to explain to a friend the other day what it’s like to write fiction. He’s a painter and doesn’t even read fiction much, so i was trying to communicate the feeling of sitting at the keyboard and having things just happen. You’ve plotted...
One of the most important decisions a writer has to make is where to start the story. Start too soon and it gets boring waiting for important events. Start too late and you have to go back and explain too much in backstory. Like Goldilocks we have to find the spot...
At breakfast yesterday, my husband asked about the new stories i’m plotting. I started describing a science fantasy menage and how there are two races on the planet, one a dominant invader group of tall, aggressive humanoids and the other a more gentle race. But...
I said when i started this blog a few months ago that i would write about other people’s books until i had a book in publication and could stake a tiny claim on being a real fiction writer. Happily, that’s occurred. My first novel, Genetic Attraction,...
