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Author Craft / Re: rules on watching telivision for writers
« on: November 22, 2014, 11:22:30 PM »
No rules per se, but I need solitude and silence to write; no TV, music, or other media in the room. If need be, I put in earplugs.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: November 06, 2014, 10:42:47 PM »
Some good progress today on my climactic scene.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: November 02, 2014, 08:20:01 PM »
116K and counting on Body For Hire; almost ready to send to betas.
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Author Craft / Re: NaNoWriMo - How does it work?
« on: October 24, 2014, 09:03:53 PM »
I've done it a few times, and it comes out to about 2600 words/day, so if you can do that, you're golden!
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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: October 14, 2014, 12:05:07 AM »
I've updated my website to include a couple of excerpts from Body For Hire:
http://elizabethkwadsworth.com/Read_Excerpt.html
Enjoy!
http://elizabethkwadsworth.com/Read_Excerpt.html
Enjoy!
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: August 16, 2014, 02:43:12 AM »
Been getting some good revisions on the Big Damn Sequel despite (or perhaps because of) major family issues.
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Author Craft / Re: How do you think/plot on a novel's scale?
« on: May 21, 2014, 12:31:49 AM »And this is a problem.... why?
My last novel was 150k+ and I wrote a 220k book that had to be split into two novels.
Who said it was a problem?
The Deposed King
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Author Craft / Re: Anyone here dealt with Pro Se Press?
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:35:52 PM »
According to their website, they've been around since 2010.
http://prose-press.com/
http://prose-press.com/
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Author Craft / Re: How do you think/plot on a novel's scale?
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:05:37 PM »
I agree with those who think you have at least the seeds of some full-length novels in the ideas you shared up-thread; any of them could be either the opening chapters or the climax of the story. Apart from that, I probably can't help you much, as I have exactly the opposite issue: I'll get an idea and think, "Oh, that could make a nice short story!" Then I think about it a little more and realize that there's no way I can possibly do justice to it in under 100,000 words.
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Author Craft / Re: Anyone here dealt with Pro Se Press?
« on: May 19, 2014, 10:24:07 PM »
They're not even mentioned on either site. They don't appear to be scam artists, just a very small genre publisher without much influence or $$, though they have done a few conventions (and according to my new friend, the CEO has some issues that can make him difficult to deal with.) I was really hoping for some more personal stories, but I guess they're really really small. 
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Author Craft / Anyone here dealt with Pro Se Press?
« on: May 16, 2014, 11:50:02 PM »
I recently met a local (fellow Eastern Connecticut) author who has published a few novels through this company; it's a very small publishing house that takes unagented genre manuscripts. She writes mainly High Fantasy, but they also deal in pulp mysteries, Westerns and sci-fi. From what she told me it sounds as though they have their good and bad points, so I was wondering if anyone here has had any experiences with them that they would share.
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Author Craft / Re: Character Development - Chicken or Egg Approach
« on: April 30, 2014, 10:02:44 PM »
I had to Google the Briggs-Meyer test but I promptly performed it on one of my protagonists. I have a feeling he'd laugh hysterically if he could see the career choices it picked for him (Nurse, caterer, elementary school teacher...really? He's a private detective.)
Both of my protagonists have taken some interesting turns, personality-wise, though they don't really surprise me so much as feel right. And a lot of what I've discovered about them is backstory that will never make its way onto paper, but helps to inform what they have become.
Both of my protagonists have taken some interesting turns, personality-wise, though they don't really surprise me so much as feel right. And a lot of what I've discovered about them is backstory that will never make its way onto paper, but helps to inform what they have become.
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Author Craft / Re: Character Development - Chicken or Egg Approach
« on: April 25, 2014, 12:11:58 AM »
I voted #1 as that's my principal M.O. but I do a lot of tweaking in rewrites, especially to the supporting cast.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: April 23, 2014, 02:04:41 PM »
Another 1000 words last night on Raising Angels.
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Author Craft / Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« on: April 17, 2014, 11:56:23 PM »
About 1000 words on the urban fantasy last night.