Categories: She’s Write About That

• She’s Write About That – Prepping for NaNoWriMo (Vol VIII)

  Happy Sunday, all and welcome back to She’s Write About That! I have one word for you today: NaNoWriMo. Okay, okay, so it’s not really a word.  But for the month of November, National Novel Writer’s Month will be a hot topic and by the time those thirty days have passed, many novelists will have poured blood, sweat and tears into meeting their 50,000 word writing goal.  Why?  Because all writers are a little bit crazy….but in a good way. [...]

• She’s Write About That – I Don’t Need No Stinking Editor (Vol VII)

  Happy mid-week, all and welcome back to She’s Write About That! The topic of the week is self-editing. It sounds so…clinical, as if I might be able to walk into my doctor’s office and say “I self-edited myself in the shower this morning; I think I may have found a lump…” Anyway…back to the topic at hand. Self-editing.  Hmmm…I had to actually think hard about this one, because I never really considered the way I edit.  I mean, of course I [...]

• She’s Write About That – Brainssss! (Vol VI)

  Happy Sunday, all and welcome back to She’s Write About That! This week, we’ve got BRAAAAIIIINNNNSSS!!!! Not to say we don’t have brains every week, but…oh, forget it.  You get the point. The topic today is brainstorming and I have to admit, it’s one of my favorite things about writing.  It’s the time between the moment an idea sashays into my mind and the moment the words make their way from my fingers to the page.   For me, it’s a [...]

• She’s Write About That – That’s What She Said (Vol V)

  Happy Sunday, all and welcome back to She’s Write About That! This week, we’re all about the dialogue, baby. From the dawn of time, creatures of every shape, size and color have wanted for ways to communicate.  Be it via grunt, singing or sign language, the need to “speak” has driven us.  Whales do their high-pitched, moany thing, dogs bark and humans…well, talk.  Human interaction was enhanced by telephones, stretched further by the advent of e-mail and soared to new [...]

• She’s Write About That – Do Your Homework (Vol IV)

  Happy Sunday, all and welcome to the fourth installment of She’s Write About That! The topic for this week is research. Ah, research.  Unless you were brought into this world and promptly hidden beneath a rock, you probably got your first official taste of it in grade school during science or literature or even mathematics class. Humans, by nature, are curious creatures.  We like to know the who, what, when, where, how and why of the things in the world [...]

• She’s Write About That – How Does That Sound? (Vol III)

  Hello, everyone and welcome to the third installment of She’s Write About That, a weekly blog where Jennifer Hudock and I offer two unique views on the same writing topic. This week we’re discussing the merits of hearing your work out loud. As most of you know, I am a little beyond the halfway point in the podcast of my novel Trapping a Duchess, a near hundred-thousand word historical romance that centers around a family of aristocrats in Regency-era England.  [...]

• She’s Write About That – Breaking the Block (Vol II)

  Hello, everyone and welcome to the second installment of my and Jennifer Hudock’s collaborative effort She’s Write About That!  This time we’re talking about the scary monster lurking in the shadows of every writer’s mind – writer’s block. It goes something like this:  You have a great idea for a story, one that acts like a chef in the kitchen of your brain, peppering your thoughts with twists and turns and characters that you just know will knock everyone’s socks [...]

• She’s Write About That: Talk to Me (Vol I)

  Hello, everyone!  The topic of conversation is…conversation.  And I had an excellent one with my friend Jennifer Hudock yesterday.  It began with a single tweet; 140 characters of what I considered possible mental imbalance that gave birth to an idea.  One spark starts a fire.  Of course, Jenny and I might still be laying around playing tinder if it weren’t for James Melzer, who suggested a cooperative venture.  It goes something like this:  Each Friday we’ll choose a writing topic and [...]