Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
TAKEN2 title reveal! · 15 May 2013
Look at all these RTs about the Young Authors Give Back tour! Thank you, thank you!!! I promised to reveal the title of TAKEN’s sequel after 50 RTs, and as you can see above, you guys met that challenge like pros. Rather than continuing to ramble, I’m just going to say thanks one last time–THANK [...]
On writing full-time · 15 November 2012
A twitter follower recently emailed me with a great question–so great, in fact, that I wanted to answer it here on the blog. Colleen asked: “I’m wondering how you knew it was safe to leave your day job. When did you feel secure enough in writing as a career?” The short answer is I didn’t [...]
Let’s talk about NaNo · 25 October 2012
A week from today is the first day of November. And you know what November means in the writing community, right? NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. The goal of NaNo is simple: Write 50,000 words in the month of November. I participated for the first time two years ago and had a blast. One [...]
Love Lists · 22 August 2012
While I read YA Highway religiously, I don’t usually participate in their Road Trip Wednesdays. However, this week’s prompt is so much fun that I couldn’t resist. Especially given how long I’ve gone without blogging. (I’m so sorry! Shame on me!) The prompt this week was to create a “love list” for your story/WIP/book/etc. What’s [...]
10 things I learned while writing a sequel · 25 April 2012
The experience of completing my first draft of TAKEN’s sequel has come with many ups and downs. The simplest thing I can say is this: Book Twos are strange beasts. Strange, strange beasts. My experience is not universal, but I do know a handful of writers that faced some of the same struggles (and epiphanies) [...]
