Do you round up your chapters or add a cliff hanger? This was a question posed by someone using the #writingcommunity hashtag on Twitter. My answer is that I initially rounded up chapters until an editor made me stop. Her reasoning was that if you round up your chapters into neatly self contained stories, then a …
Plotting love affairs and break ups
One WIP has been submitted, one is on the back-burner and one I've just started plotting. I'm taking my time with this. With my other two works in progress I found I plotted too quickly, then went back and tried to expand them. One of them paces well, so I changed my mind and submitted …
Writing Life vs. Real Life
Since mid last year there has been a change to my life. My husband is at home full time, and this is nice. Our days off together include lying in bed with no hurry to get up. Of making coffee from the espresso machine and enjoying organic muesli in the morning. Of planning renovations together or …
Insomnia. A writer’s friend.
All my life I've been an insomniac. Not the 'lie in bed trying the fall asleep' type. The 'wake up at 3am and can't sleep for hours' kind. It doesn't happen every night, and if the next day is not a work day, that's not a problem. As writers, we know that these night hours …
Tayler’s other love interest in Social Media Central (Deleted Scene)
We all know how scenes get deleted from writing projects. In Social Media Central, two characters showed up unannounced and wanted to stay. One was Felicity, a bookstore owner who ended up taking a major role in the novel. The other was introduced in a scene at the park. He too was telling me he …
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As an author, how much social media is enough?
I have two designated days a week to write. That's more than most. One of those days is Monday and like most people find, Mondays fly by quickly. I usually do the washing on that day as well, and pop off to the gym in the morning. So I don't get to my laptop until …
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Ideas, and where to find them.
I've been travelling. I took some time off to realign my life. Before this trip my day job got very hectic, taking over both my time and my thoughts, and forcing my current writing project to feel abandoned. Yet, in a way, this has turned out to be a good thing. The work in progress, …
Lunch with Writers
This is really a post about self-publishing versus traditional publishing, but saying I caught up with my favourite dirty old man and one of the few mm romance authors who lives down-under, well, it just sounds better as a blog title. Max Vos is one of self-publishing's successes, writing gay male erotica for an eager audience. …
Someone out there, give me a review!
Last week's guest blogger, 'Nathan Burgoine, once posted his Christmas wish list on his own website. Quiet simply, he wanted reviews. Any author with a book newly released understands his sentiment. When my ebook Nate and the New Yorker came out, I spent weeks searching for reviews. Any writer will admit that this becomes a habit. You're …
Rejected by a Reviewer
I had a unique experience recently. There's one reviewer who I like to read, especially when he's writing about one of my books. It's one of the rare vanity moments we have as authors. What I like about this reviewer is that within his critique, he offers advice to the writer. In the past he hasn't …
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