I have begun the Editing Frenzy for Beauty and the Beast. It’s not so bad since I had to go back and make adjustments when I was about halfway through writing the story, but I would dearly like to get this first edit read-through finished before Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving I’m sending B&B off to be […]
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All Done
I am proud of myself, for once I have a very good reason for missing my Monday update and nearly missing Wednesday’s as well. Ready for it? Ok, here it comes! I FINISHED WRITING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!!! It needs to be edited a few times, and I have a few scenes to rework, but […]
Hunger Games Theme Park
Several reputable news sources have published articles saying that Lionsgate is considering the possibility of building a Hunger Games theme park. I’m not surprised they’re considering such a thing, Hunger Games (the movie) made over $690 million. However, I reaaallllyyyy hope they don’t go forward with it. It’s not because I don’t think books can […]
Squirrel Attacks
Today I think I conducted possibly the weirdest bit of research I’ve ever done for the sake of a book. I spent about half an hour watching squirrel attack clips on YouTube for a scene that will appear in Beauty and the Beast. My research did not reassure me to the general level of humanities’ […]
Hmmm
It’s a short update today because I’ve got lots to do, but I wanted to warn you, Champions, that I will again be playing around with the format and layout of my blog, and I’m working on getting my domain name hooked up to it. I need to do a wee bit of social media […]
Writing Tips: Let’s Talk Writing Dialog
Today I want to discuss writing dialog. We’re going to jump straight into it by looking over dialog’s punctuation format. If you you have a piece of dialog followed by he said/she said/a sentence that modifies the talking, AND you intend to use a period to end the talking, you must, instead, use a comma. […]