Before Christmas, I offered readers a thread to share their best reads, books and blog. The rules were simple. List no more than three of your favorite reads and tell others why you liked them. The thread is full of awesome recommendations, and I really enjoyed reading them until I came to this nugget of
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Holiday Updates and Awesome Pictures
First things first, your recommendations are now preserved for posterity. If you look in the top menu, you will see BDH Recommends, which will take you to the best reads post before this one, so you can keep it for reference. The Incomparable Brandi will be gone over the holidays. She has been working on
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Get It Together, Get It Together
Me trying to write SAPPHIRE FLAMES.
On William Wallace, Dubious Accuracy of
I love this so much. So much.
Deleted Scene from Hidden Legacy 4, More Cowbells
We liked this beginning but ultimately decided it needs something more. We we’ve cut this scene and reworked it. Here it is, a never before and never again published opening. We tried but couldn’t find the image of the right building available to purchase, so we are linking to it here, because we have no
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Writing Questions: Research
what are your primary forms of research? To be specific, do you look at scientific journals, speak with people who specialize in the field, watch videos, etc? And if you go for that personal meeting with a person, how do you approach them (through email? Setup face to face meetings)? Are people in a university
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Writing Questions: Ideas and Reviews
Do you ever read someone else’s stuff and think “oh Kate would have done it this way” or then think “I could have done that better?” – then fight yourself not to use the idea? I never want to borrow someone else’s idea but sometimes what is in a story is similar to what I
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No ETA on Innkeeper: the Father is enroute
The innkeeper isn’t going to be up until the house is spotless. My father is landing at 1:00 am tonight and the focus is on making sure that I don’t get a 2:00 am lecture on the shortcomings of my housekeeping. 🙂 We will have it out to you this weekend. Hopefully.
Plot and Issues
1. How do you narrow down ideas and figure out which is workable? What elements while building a plot should I be on the look out for so I know if its feasible? You don’t know if the plot will work until you write it. You’ve seen me show trunked material. It was trunked because
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Characters, Part 2
So I have the basic layout of my story. … The problem is my characters won’t let me stick to my admittedly sketchy outline and keep taking me off on tangents. So my question is, do you ever let your characters run roughshod over your supposed plot and see where it leads you? Or do
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Writing Questions: Characters, Part 1
Most of us as would-be writers want to get out books into someone’s hands, but don’t always understand how to make the characters in our heads as likeable or engaging to someone who only has the black-magic-marks-on-white-paper to go by. Kate Daniels, for example, was raised to be an unfeeling killer and is often kind
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Writing Questions: NaNoWriMo Edition
Disclaimer: this is an article on the craft and business of writing. We are going to answer the questions raised within with honestly and bluntness. If you are here as a fan of our work, sometimes that can be jarring, so proceed at your own risk. In a recent blog post you asked for questions
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