There exists no one way toward becoming a professional writer. You cannot perfectly walk another’s journey. … We all chart our own course and burn the map afterward. It’s just how it is. If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking. — Chuck Wendig, author, screenwriter, game designer, and…
This month’s Random Writing piece is a short 900-word story I wrote called The Harp, as an assignment in my Children’s Literature class back in October 2013. I’ve taken the time to do quite a bit of rewriting and polishing of this story in the last week, and I’m pretty happy with it now. I was inspired…
Today I am beyond excited to share with you the artwork of Katherine Ellis, posting as Sio64 on deviantart, and starting out with this wonderful dragon image called Egg Timer. Katherine sets the scene: The concept is a mechanical dragon who needs to steal clocks. She welds them onto her eggs, and the timer starts until the…
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. — E. L. Doctorow So I’ve had planning on my mind a lot lately, since my husband and I are taking a vacation with our best friends to Florida for two weeks,…
Right now, I am very annoyed, and I found the perfect image to go with my mood called Pudge, the Ever Annoyed Dragon, by American deviantartist Katie, posting as Dragoniangirl. Let me regale you with my tale of woe, and then go back to the Neeka chapter that is also currently vexing me, but that I’m…
A writer doesn’t dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations. — C.K. Webb All right, so I know this is true in my heart… but to be honest,…
Welcome back to another installment of Neeka’s Story, brought to you by my own imagination and the weekly WordPress Discover Challenge. This chapter is a little a lot ridiculously late, I know, but as I’ve mentioned before, this scene was being so stubborn that it served me better to use my writing time and energy to just…
Well, it’s the end of the month and time once again for a Random Writing, a chance for me to post something that’s unrelated to dragons or either of my WIPs, just a piece of my own writing from the past that I want to share with the world. And today I’m going to share a really personal…
In honor of the first full day of summer (here in the Northern hemisphere, at least), I thought I’d share another great illustration by famed artist Todd Lockwood, from his debut novel, The Summer Dragon. I read and loved the book, as did my husband, and I wish I had more time to write a…
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~ Dan Greenburg Oh my goodness, isn’t this the truth! This quote comes from Dan Greenburg, author of seventy-three books including the adult thrillers Exes, Love Kills, and Fear Itself, and the children’s series The Zack Files, and it goes…
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I found dragons for you every week while I worked on my novel Finding Dragons - On Hiatus Since 2020
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