Tag: YA Fantasy
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“The Seer’s Story” – Now Available!
You guys! I finally did it! “The Seer’s Story” is now available as a Kindle ebook, and I am sooooo EXCITED! Uploading my story to Kindle was super easy. In what should come as a surprise to no one, it was being able to finally call The Seer’s Story done that was the challenging part…
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Writing Prompt: “So it has come to this.”
“So it has come to this.” His voice was implacable. “You must choose. I will not accept your divided loyalties; they work against my plans. This is your choice: abandon your other masters, or die.” Dennis grinned, a feral thing that should have made Iago flinch, but didn’t. It appeared the pup had grown up.…
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Writing Prompt: You See a Shooting Star
He sat out on the balcony, watching the night sky for the fleeting stab of the falling stars. Normally, this was his favorite time of year, watching the heavens put on their show, but tonight he felt nothing but bitterness at each brief, flaring light. Brief. So brief, just like his life would be, now…
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Character Sketch: A Weak King
The Cooling was being refreshed hourly, but it wasn’t enough. A trickle of sweat tickled through his hairline. The drop wasn’t large — tiny, in fact — but it was enough. The words swam on the page as the memory engulfed him. That fluttery, heavy feeling in his chest — needing to breathe, to gasp,…
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Revising Is Hard, Y’all
I thought finishing my first draft of Harbinger was hard. And it was! I spent years dreaming, drafting, ignoring the insane urge to spend more time copy-editing than writing … but I persevered and finally — FINALLY — got to that finished first draft. Woo-hoo! I was on to the revising portion. I knew this…
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Slow but Steady …
In April of 2017, I started writing a YA fantasy novel (Harbinger). In December of 2018, I finished my first draft — all 75,538 words of it. Today, looking down the barrel of December 2019, my first revision is 97,307 words long, and I’m beginning to chisel my way into an almost-final version. Back in…
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