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Metaverse Muses: The Oracle
A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient. One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…
WIP: Daring to be Different
Trella Dare from Storm Runners–a Game-4-Love book Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).– Mark Twain: Notebook, 1904 I like exploring boundaries and discovering new ways to do things. Some folks are really happy with consistency and familiarity. That’s okay, but if you’re an author trying to get your book seen in the 35 million + books on Amazon, you might try, just once, going outside your comfort zone and doing something no one else is doing. For the first few years of my publishing career I was confined by what my publisher was willing to allow, and…
Four Stages of Romance Novel Writing
First Draft This is the baseline sketch. It all feels black and white, prose is wooden, characters flat. Second Draft The elements begin to merge. Ideas flow. The story starts to breathe. This is the place where you first start to weave a connection between the story world and the words. Third Draft Now we’re cooking! The characters have a voice and life on the pages. You disappear into the story while you write. Maybe at this stage it is good enough, but why stop there when you could go one level deeper? Fourth Draft You tweak for drama and page-turning emotion until the story consumes you. Then it’s ready.…
