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The Write Scent: Snake Oil
Using scent to tell a story — scent reviews and inspired prompts for fiction and non-fiction writers.
The Write Scent: Noisy Goose Moon & A Wet Moon, Putney Road
Using scent to tell a story — scent reviews and inspired prompts for fiction and non-fiction writers.
Cover Reveal for ON GOOD AUTHORITY
“…The way some women long to be rescued, I have always longed to be captured.”
What’s Love Got to Do With It? A Course on Writing Romance in Non-Romance Genres
Romance, the experience, is not just for Romance, the genre. In fact, including romance within non-Romance stories lets us explore the full complexity of relationships—their darkness, their down-beats, their messy or unhappy endings—in ways that Romance stories, because of genre conventions, often cannot.
The Write Scent: Week of 2/13/2022
Using scent to tell a story — scent reviews and inspired prompts for fiction and non-fiction writers.
Writers: Want to Get Gothic with Me?
I’m leading a workshop on Halloween, in which writers will leverage desire to create dread in their fiction. Come play with me! Here’s more information:
Prospective Pitch Wars Mentees: Want Help Picking Mentors?
Pitch Wars 2020 was a wonderful experience for me, not just because I was chosen as a mentee, or even because the showcase helped me find representation, but because of the way my mentor and I worked together… What I would like to pass on to mentee-hopefuls is some insight into choosing the right mentors to apply to (You get four choices!), to give yourself your best shot at finding a mentor-teammate.
My Querying Journey: 100+ Rejections, 1 Yes
While I was querying, I wanted to read stories of others’ journeys. I was trying to divine by comparison whether I would succeed or fail. On the other side, I can tell you that it felt like failing, right up to the moment I succeeded.
Here’s my story:
Writer, INC.: Who’s In Charge Here?
People say “writer’s block doesn’t exist; could a cab-driver refuse to drive, saying she had driver’s block?” Well, no, but if her passengers were simultaneously shouting at her—turn LEFT, NO, turn RIGHT—she might slam on her brakes, and/or get herself into an accident.
So it’s not a block—not a thing in the road preventing your progress. It’s an internal paralysis, when the voices in your head as you write give opposite advice, so you don’t know which way to turn.
Which of those voices is right? How can you tell?
Well, yours truly took a trippy, er, trip into her own brain to find out just who is in charge at the (metaphorical, obviously) Writer, Incorporated. What follows is a series of interviews with the various voices in my head, like any perfectly normal person might conduct. It’s kind of like Are You My Mother? but for creative types.