This week’s Friday Flash is brought to you by “DAISUKI.”, the F/F romance novella I’ve been working on this month. This is one of the shorter scenes, so I’m able to post it in its entirety. No real warnings this week, other than some thin allusions to sex. Otherwise, don’t think there’s anything. —- …
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I was first exposed to Amy Tan when I was a child and the movie “The Joy Luck Club” made its repeated runs on HBO. I found it fascinating from a cinematic point of view, and loved it so much to the point…
Not much time to write out a full post today, so here’s just an easy question for all your writers out there: what are you average chapter lengths? Do you go by word count or by pages? Do you put more than one scene in a chapter or is every scene its own chapter? (Okay,…
Hey everyone! Busy week here on my blog, eh. Well, busy week with writing in general. First is the little thing of me breaking past 50k last night in Camp Nanowrimo! Yay! I didn’t even know it. I was taking words from different projects (more on that later) and apparently calculating wrong until I just…
“Share A Saturday” is a weekly chance for you, yes YOU, to come on my blog and talk about whatever you want, so long as it’s related to writing/books. For more information, such as if you’d like to “share a Saturday” with me, please see below!Morgan Bauman is a YA fantasy author currently in the…
Today’s the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Blog Hop” hosted by Jaycee DeLorenzo and Victoria Smith! Let’s just cut right into the meat of things: Here are the details: Interview a heroine of your manuscript, novel, or WIP by a fellow female counterpart also from your written work. Your featured heroine can be interviewed by…
Spiral Bound Chaos. I’ve noticed a pattern across the Authory Internetz (official term!) today, one that I think I should jump in on ANY TIME NOW. Anyway, on blogger, on twitter, on forums, probably on tumbllr too, the big thing the past couple of days is sharing our notebooks. (Is this an actual thing or…
I’ve been writing novel-length stories for well over ten years now, and during that time from reading articles in “Writer’s Digest” magazine to now trolling through blogs, it seems that the discussions on “novel lengths” has changed dramatically. But as authors we tend to see “novel length” in various lights. There’s Wordcount Length Page Length…
Things continue to move forward in the writing and publishing department. At 601 pages and about 340k words, CROSS//Rebirth is currently at first round of betas (weeeee). Yes, if you never knew before, I write me some long fantasy novels. Hip hip hooray? Regardless, I’m glad to not have to look at it for a…
I couldn’t resist. Hey everyone! I’m here to announce a new feature over here at Musings of a Procrastinating Author: SHARE A SATURDAY,, or, a chance for you to feature yourself on my blog for a Saturday! Have a new book coming out? Have an older book with stagnating sales? Looking for an opportunity to…