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Title: Currently Untitled (I'm working on this) Genre: YA Zombie Horror Chapter 1 The nightmares didn't come to Zoe Lyons every night. Not anymore. She'd lived in sustained fear for five years, so to bring the nightmares the trigger needed to be something truly awful, a thing that burned into the de...

This is complicated. I use Facebook, but I hate Facebook. Or rather, the company running Facebook. I hate their privacy practices (or rather, lack there of) and they've recently made available everyone's phone numbers to the general public. This is important because once upon a time phone numbers we...

Any interesting take on this- My grown up job is at a hospital, and this morning I was standing at the coffee cart waiting for my favorite barista to make my latte, and a group of resident surgeons and their teacher come up behind me. There's a tv on in the lounge we're at and it's showing the news ...

I don't think there's really a "wrong" way of doing anything :-)

I can't wait to check that book out Robin!

Author Scott Westerfeld just posted a video from BEA where he sat on a panel about writing steampunk. He's on the panel with Cherie Priest and Cory Docotrow and a woman whose name escapes me at the moment. The video and panel are about steampunk, but Scott gives a brief presentation about using art ...

If you write sci-fi/fantasy, a sometimes overlooked resource are the writer's workshops hosted at sci-fi conventions. I know it sounds kind of corny, but most of the workshops I've seen are actually well put together and involve at least one, usually more, published authors of this genre. Some are m...

I feel like I'm the queen of getting stuck. I agree with Polymath in that usually when I'm "stuck" it's actually because I've got a gut feeling that something is wrong with what I've written and I need to work that out before I can continue. Not like "Man that paragraph is so crunchy ...

I don’t know about anyone else, but every summer, right about this time, when my state becomes the epicenter for late spring storms and all the kids are getting out of school and my neighborhood, flanked on both sides by a junior high and an elementary school, becomes suddenly empty and quiet and bu...

Any thoughts about the question I posed....how do you feel if you find out your narrator isn't a good person, but they have led you to believe they are? What do you think about reading a book, believing a narrator is good and finding out that they are in fact evil or bad. How would you feel siding ...

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Further update:
I never made it to the gym, but I did make it to the oreos aisle, which is also good, I think.

I fell in love with this statement. It is awesome :-) I am also glad to hear you're more optimistic and things are going to be ok.

Author Sarah Rees Brennan has a great post about both having fan fiction written about your work and about having been a fan fiction writer. It's a worthy read on both counts.

http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/165135.html#cutid1

I've read Liar. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Love, because Justine Larbalestier is brilliant and her writing just sucks me in entirely. Hate, because this book makes me so frustrated even months later I don't know exactly what to do with it. I think I like the concept of the unreliable n...

Of course we've all felt that way! The good news is that some part of you doesn't want to give up, and that's all you need. What I do if this happens is sort of a 3 part process. 1. I get some space. LOTS of space. I read. I read a couple of books both in and out of my genre. Good, good books. 2. I ...

I love these books. I really, really do :-) I'm totally Team Peeta. Mostly because, well, who is Gale anyway? There are nondescript unnamed side characters who've had more face time than Gale. I feel a little bit like Gale was part of a past life and Peeta is part of her current life, and in the fut...

My very first draft was terrible. So terrible when I was finished I scrapped the whole thing and rewrote it from paragraph 1. The second draft is actually pretty great, but I have done a ton of editing as I wrote the second draft, which I find is a better way for me to work than if I write the whole...