Scribd subscribers: The Crow God’s Girl is now available through your favorite reading site. Just like Netflix for movies, Scribd allows subscribers access to a vast library of books. Even though I’ve been working diligently on Bandit Girls, The Crow God’s Girl is not far from my thoughts. I left Kate in a precarious position, not to mention Colar. I know where the series is going, and in fact, I have the end scene for Read more…
You can’t make a story happen. Or at least, I can’t. Sometimes though, all the wrong directions and false starts and pounding against the locked door are what it takes to break through. Tonight I figured out how to get the protagonists out of town. I figured out how one protagonist can use her powers for well, not really good, but at least not evil. I figured out the antagonist’s back story and motivation. I Read more…
After weeks of diligent outlining, and a pretty bad case of writer’s block, this morning on the way to work I finally got the breakthrough I needed. I can’t start writing until I find my way into the story, and finally it all fell into place. Not a word of which was in the outline. Not the plot, not the events, not the scene that set the stage for the outlined novel, not the implications Read more…