My friend Kate (also one of the three of us behind Anxiety Ink) tagged me to participate in a blog hop. I’ve never done one of these before, and it kind of feels like I’m joining a cult. But a fun cult! 1. What are you working on? A rewrite of an urban fantasy novel […]
Tag: how i write
I Do Not Have To Justify Myself To You
Speaking of insecurities, I could catalog mine all day. Ever make a major life decision without necessarily knowing how important it may or may not turn out to be? Then spend what seems the rest of your life trying to explain it so you won’t be judged and found wanting? Yeah, the subject of my […]
Dreaming Worlds
It’s official: Ecuador has crept into my dreams. Have I said before just how much dreams influence my stories? Because they do. I’ve had whole plots lines and casts of characters handed to me in a single dream. I’ve had a dreams inspire entire series — sometimes a single dream, sometimes a few mixed together. […]
The Writing Nook
Some people have breakfast nooks. I have a writing nook. It’s received mention here before, so I decided it was time for show-and-tell. That mess under the desk? Can’t see it when I’m working, but it does make for interesting foot rests. The bright Indian scarves? They’re disguising my crazy bags and boxes of notebooks. Some […]
Pinion Feathers
It’s a bit depressing when you think you’re done — at least enough to evict a novel from the nest — only to have someone come along (in this case, two someones) to point out that your baby hasn’t quite grown its pinion feathers yet. You’d think I’d catch those flaws in my own writing […]
Ode To My Brain
One more awesome thing about Creative Hours: I reach for writing before I even notice that it’s 8pm. See? I can be trained. So this post is about my brain. Specifically, my subconscious. Why? Because it’s freaking AMAZING. You have to be damned talented to write well in a very limited space. Some of the […]
Words Of Fire
Do you ever how those ideas that grab you by the neck and turn your life upside-down? That permeate everything you think, or sleep, or eat, or breathe? I have a story burning to get out. It doesn’t want to wait. It hasn’t even told me what it is. They never understand the need to […]
This Whooshing Sound Unnerves Me
Deadlines. Whether you meet them or not, you have experience with them. Without deadlines, I doubt procrastination would be the pandemic it is. Would we even have a word for it? Procrastination, I mean. One thing is both a positive and negative of the relative isolation in which I write: all of my deadlines have […]
Needs Improvement
Everyone has things she would like to improve on. Even the narcissists I know don’t consider themselves perfect. So in honor of imperfection, I give you a List Of (my) Writing Skills In Need Of Improvement: Cover Letters — The bane of my existence, for writing-to-(traditionally)-publish as well as for the unfortunately necessary existence of […]
When I Write…
…I will drink if I am thirsty or eat if I am hungry. However, that requires me to be enough aware of my body to know if I need food and enough in reality to remember long enough to do something about it. This isn’t a problem if I’m procrastinating, but my husband has been […]
Melissa Burkart 