Hello friends. I return, as promised, after a week away for a writing retreat. I was with the same group of people last year for a similar weekend. We were at a different location this year and had an extra day, but […]
An important milestone happened yesterday – I hit the halfway point in editing my novel. When I checked my word count, I randomly decided to see how many words I had remaining, and I was almost exactly at the midpoint. The work […]
This week I finally finished the rewrites of the opening of my novel. It still needs polishing, of course, but I’ve managed to bend it and reshape it into something a bit more streamlined, while (hopefully) adding more tension and conflict. I […]
I had the incredible fortune to be part of a retreat this weekend with 10 of my fellow writers. It was wonderfully fun and vastly inspiring. Writing with friends, bouncing ideas off each other, giving feedback, and sharing knowledge – this felt […]
To my great relief, February is over. I know March still isn’t great for a lot of people, but for myself I can feel things changing. My sleep is still not great, I’m not going out with friends as much as I […]
On the last episode of the Erin Tells Lies blog, I told you about how I’d sent out the first digital copies of my novel to my selected alpha readers. This week, I received the three physical copies I ordered for those […]
Earlier this week I hit another milestone – I sent four people digital copies of my novel. On Monday, I will have printed copies for the three people who preferred a physical copy to mark up. A bit later than the November […]
About a month ago, I submitted a story for consideration in an anthology a friend is editing and publishing. The collection is called “The Science Fiction Tarot”. Stories weren’t supposed to be about the tarot, but the authors were to come up […]
I mentioned in this post that I had signed my first contract. My story, “Sword of Songs” is now published and purchasable in the book on Amazon, here! I’m very excited to see my work in print for the first time. This […]
A few days after that fateful poem, with my brain still full of thoughts of “Should I write?” and “Do I have anything to say?” and “Am I making excuses?”, I decided to re-read Stephen King’s On Writing. I had read it […]