This week, I started editing Snow. And while I’ve been editing, I’ve been listening to more video game soundtracks. Currently it’s the music from Skyrim. There’s something about this music that gets my mind in a creative space the moment I start listening to it. At the same time, once I start working, it fades into the background, allowing me to write without...
Image Credit Snow has made exciting progress this week. After much brainstorming and working through plot and character problems with my ever faithful brainstorming buddy and sister, I finally started editing Snow for real today. So far, progress has been pretty smooth, which is good considering I struggle with beginnings. I’ve managed to edit 4k/9 pages today and so far I’m feeling pretty...
Photo credit: cobblucas via Foter.com / CC BY There’s a growing trend for movies, books, or series to have a prequel written about their villains. Think of Maleficent, or Fairest here. But, despite their increasing popularity, these are difficult stories. What writers have to deliver is a book that is the exact opposite of what readers are used to, a story about a...
Photo credit: Infomastern via Foter.com / CC BY-SA A Saturday post? What is this? This is Imogen catching up (along with answering the many lovely comments you guys have been leaving me this week). As you can probably tell from the lack of posts this week, I’ve been away for a few days. After finishing my read through of Snow last week, editing...
Photo credit: Evelyn Flint (Daydreaming Images) via Foter.com / CC BY Like most readers, I always have way, way too many books on my to-be-read list. It doesn’t exactly help matters that I add more books every time I visit a library, hang out online with cool bookish friends, or think about reading. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, a link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish is...
Photo Credit: Prawny via Morguefile.com There are certain books that I think everyone will agree are very influential in the writing world. Books like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, or Divergent, that have captured readers’ imaginations, and have inspired writers to follow in their footsteps. These are the types of books that other novels get compared to, and that typify the kind...
Video games, like movies, often have amazing soundtracks. Recently, I’ve been exploring the soundtracks of several games recommended to me by my writing friends, and the lovely people over on Twitter. And I unearthed a treasure-trove of amazing writing music. What’s great about video game music over many other kinds, is that they’re actually designed to be listened to on an endless loop...
January is the month for making resolutions and setting goals and, for me, I find it quite helpful to set at least a few loose goals for my writing for the upcoming year, which makes this month’s Beautiful People subject perfect for me. Beautiful People is a writerly link-up hosted monthly by the amazing duo of Cait@Paper Fury and Sky@Further Up and Further In,...
Photo credit: lewishamdreamer via Foter.com / CC BY-NC As I mentioned in my post last week, I’m currently editing my YA superhero novel, Snow. I’ve almost finished the initial read through (which has been taking way, way longer than it should) and so far it’s been a very mixed experience. In many ways, I’m actually quite happy with how the last draft turned...
Photo credit: LukeAndrew94 via Foter.com / CC BY-SA Welcome to my new series, Elements Of, where I will be outlining the features that make a genre, character, or subplot great. Today, I want to talk about mysteries. I love mysteries, both reading or watching them, and writing them mystery. In fact one of my projects for NaNoWriMo last year was a mystery. There are...
Photo credit: dmswart via Foter.com / CC BY On Monday, I posted a survey asking for feedback on this blog, and quite a few lovely people stopped to give me their thoughts. To everyone who helped me out, thank you so much. I know everyone has been asking for their blog readers to fill in surveys recently, but your thoughts have really helped...
Photo credit: laureltopias via Foter.com / CC BY If you read my last post, in which I listed ten of my resolutions for this year (which you can view HERE), then you may have seen that one of my resolutions for 2016 is to share more about my own writing on this blog. It’s a bit of a scary goal, because for me,...
Photo credit: Evelyn Flint (Daydreaming Images) via Foter.com / CC BY The beginning of a new year brings a fresh start, and most people, me included, start taking a close look at what worked in the previous year, as well as what didn’t, and make resolutions to achieve specific things in the upcoming year. This week, in the spirit of the new year,...
