The Cure to Feline Interruptus

/ June 18, 2010/ excuses, Falling to Normal, The White One, writing/ 0 comments

Editing is still happening and I’m in the final push towards the end. This means nothing to my late-in-life development of self-diagnosed ADD. Nor does this mean anything to all the shiny television I’m overdue to watch. This also means shit to my furry children who clamor for attention the instant there is a pen in hand. Fortunate for me,

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Scene Blockage

/ April 21, 2010/ epic battles, Falling to Normal, musings, writing/ 1 comments

I’m on my third manuscript free day. This isn’t because I’ve been such a kick-ass kid and deserve a break. Nope. It’s because after slowing to freight train status, I’ve hit a new scene that I don’t want to write. Not quite writer’s block, but definitely a mental block. Which got me thinking about scene blockage. How it manifests. Why

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Plotting Revisals

/ February 2, 2010/ Falling to Normal, revising, writing/ 8 comments

This dark sketchy picture represents the last complete draft of FALLING TO NORMAL, the young adult novel I’m shopping around. Or was until I got no hits from the queries sent in the last half of 2009, now I’m in revision-o-rama. I admit, I hate it. That is, the revision process. More specifically as it holds to this project. When

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