by marciadmin | Nov 18, 2017 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Round Robin: Holidays, Traditions, and Writing. This month’s round robin asks: What stories have your written or read where a holiday takes place. To what purpose was the inclusion of the holiday? How do you celebrate holidays or events? Does this ever make it into...
by marciadmin | Oct 20, 2017 | Excerpts, Publishing Talk, Round Robin
Round Robin — Time Periods This month for Round Robin we are discussing what time periods our muses prefer. Do they prefer past, present, or future? Are there problems and/or advantages of that choice? And whether we’d like to change? My muse isn’t...
by marciadmin | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog Hops, Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month’s Round Robin topic is: how do you go about developing your characters for a story? How much time do you spend or does it just happen in the writing process? What inspires it? My Character Process I don’t really have a character process. They develop on...
by marciadmin | May 27, 2017 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
May’s Round Robin is an excellent topic suggested by Skye: Has so much emphasis been placed by readers and writers groups, publishers, reviewers, etc. on authors to have a spectacular opening page/chapter that the rest of the story gets left behind? What are...
by marciadmin | Apr 22, 2017 | Blog Hops, Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month for Round Robin, we’re discussing reviews. (Thanks, Victoria, for the topic!) Reviews are the bane and boon of an author’s existence. We love them, and, sometimes, we hate them. Others, we might ignore, especially when it’s apparent the reviewer didn’t read...
by marciadmin | Mar 17, 2017 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month’s Round Robin asks whether or not I am ever emotionally drained by writing certain scenes, and how real are my characters to me? I don’t know if I’m emotionally drained, but I find that after I’ve finished a scene, I’m done for the day. It’s almost as if my...
