I finally named my office!
I present the Deep Shed. Sometimes the shed helps me get deep work done. Sometimes I am just in Deep Shed. To answer the usual questions:...
Revising my novel to make it more emotionally intense turns out to be emotionally intense.
I've reached the "dark night of the soul" chapter in this revision and I ... you know what? I am not going to start that at 5:00 on a...
A second art
Earlier this year I started messing around with acrylic paints. My late sister was a painter, but I have always said I had no visual...
Spanish Scorpions
The Spanish edition of The Scorpion Rules is out today: Las Reglas Del Escorpion from Teen Planet Libros.
First Page Challenge goes live!
I am thrilled to be judging the coolest Canada 150 project out here, the CBC Books First Page Student Writing Challenge. Here's the idea:...
Writing Stickers
Writing stickers for October. That’ll do, October! I have been giving myself stickers for writing for years. It is my best trick to keep...
Sometimes things ossify...
I finished reworking the opening of Novel #5 and intellectually I think the new opening is better but I have lived with the old opening...
An edit plan
So, I am constructing an edit plan. This is what that looks like: I read through the chapter and all the associated notes. I review the...
Crossing the pit
Yesterday, as previously mentioned, I had a deep read of my editorial letter and my assorted scribblings to myself and based on calls...
For my next trick...
Manuscript for fiction #6 submitted yesterday. For my next trick, I am going to re-read the manuscript for fiction #5, pull apart the...