The day I reveal the title for my fantasy-flavored Oliver Twist Retelling, formerly known as the Super Secret Project!
I was going to wait until next Monday… but someone over on Facebook guessed correctly!!! Many congratulations to Jenny H!
Read MoreAs I’ve been writing up a storm here in the Stormcave for the past month and a half, I thought maybe you would enjoy a bit more of a peek into my process. From first idea to published product… what goes on behind the page, as it were?
Read MoreNovember is over, and that means we get the questions for the final link-up of the 2021 edition of Know the Novel.
Know the Novel is a 3-part linkup series for writers, one for each of the last three months of the year. Each part features ten questions you can answer on your own blog (or anywhere else on social media, if you’d like!). The questions focus on different parts of your novel and how the writing is going.
Created by the amazing Christine Smith, this link-up encourages us to share bits from our works-in-progress and do a little authorly introspection, as well! I love this link-up and am enjoying being able to participate this year, despite going all NaNoWriMo Rebel-Rogue this year and editing instead of drafting!
Read MoreBut I almost never start with that. My writing is driven by a weird mixture of world-building, character, and plot. Plot usually comes last. The world and the characters come first… and which one comes first varies from story to story.
An Echo of the Fae was no exception to the rule. As I explained earlier this week, a lot of the story came together after I had figured out who the players were and what the world looked like.
For me, the themes usually stand out to me more after the story is written, and one of my jobs is to pull those themes out and polish them off in the editing stages.
Some of the themes in this story surprised me, but I am quite pleased with how they wove themselves through the plot.
Read MoreSome of you know this already, but An Echo of the Fae was supposed to be a Rapunzel retelling. In its very earliest stages, it was simply the glimmering of an idea as I tried to come up with something that would work for Kendra’s Fairy Tale Retelling Challenge and multi-author-release. She told us that the theme would be Rapunzel back in… I believe it was 2018. And while I didn’t quite make it in time to be part of the release, and my story really didn’t end up being a retelling… like… at all… that is where the first flickers of idea began. That’s where it all started.
Read MoreJust wanted to give you a quick head's up that this little blog will be getting a major overhaul in the next couple of weeks.
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