Writing on Writing
A collection of thoughts and musings about writing – from the mundane (mostly) to the profound (rare).
- Embrace Your Inner Chumbawamba. No Really.
Trust me, I know there are times you don’t want to get up again It’s been a long time since I’ve written here, and there is a one-hit wonder from the late 1990s that sums up why. I get knocked down, but I get up againYou’re never gonna keep me down Those lyrics are from - My 2022 Querying Journey
I started querying in March of 2022 (scroll down to see my stats). At the time, my YA fantasy novel stood a whopping 120,000 words. I thought it was polished and ready to go. Since then, the manuscript has gone through many revisions and now sits at a much more respectable 100,000 words. Yes, a - Of Writing Advice and Salad Bars
If you ever look for writing advice or querying advice online, you are met with a boatload of information. And much of it is conflicting. How does one decide which advice to follow? Do you write slowly and methodically as Sabaa Tahir discussed in a recent Instagram post? Or do you zoom through your first - The Best Questions for Beta Readers
After finishing a draft, writers are both wildly excited and dreadfully fearful of sharing their finished book with anyone and everyone. If harnessed, the anxiety could power a medium-sized city for roughly three thousand years. Yet one of the steps in improving a draft is sharing it with beta readers. These lucky (or unlucky) friends, - A Rollercoaster Ride
Hi friends! Let’s chat today about the true nature of the rollercoaster ride known as querying. (If you want to know more about the basics of querying, check out my previous post.) I started querying agents and a few publishers in February of this year, roughly 200 days ago. Like getting on a rollercoaster for