The Truth About Writing
This timeline by Guillaume Morissette is disconcertingly accurate. 🙂 So sad. So true. 🙂 xoxo, Chloe
Category: Writing
Happy NaNoWriMo!
For those of you who are embarking, happy NaNoWriMo! For the newbies, NaNoWriMo stands for “National Novel Writing Month.” Crazy people sign up to write 50,000 words of a novel. (To be followed by the “December of Revisions.”) 🙂 I’ll be writing THE VEIL this month (or 50K of it, anyway). If you’re curious about[…]
The Editing Process in Traditional Publishing
Once upon a time, I wrote summaries of my writing process. Part I discussed brainstorming, Part II discussed outlining, and Part III discussed the actual writing. I’ve finally finished Part IV, the editing process, at least for traditionally published print novels. I opted to make a graphic to simplify the process. Briefly, you start at[…]
Yasmine Galenorn, Show Your Work!
This week, I’ve asked some amazing urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors to participate in Show Your Work week and share their processes with you. Today, please welcome Yasmine Galenorn! New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn writes urban fantasy for Berkley: both the Otherworld Series and the Indigo Court[…]