by Jane Maree | 12 October 2018 | Life, Writing |
I mentioned the term ‘brainstorm buddy’ in my last post, and this week I’m actually staying with one of my brainstorm buddies, so what better time to talk about how amazing they are? Every time I’m stuck in my novel I go hunt down a...
by Jane Maree | 5 October 2018 | Writing |
National Novel Writing Month (more commonly dubbed ‘NaNoWriMo’) is coming up in just a few weeks, so I thought it would be a fun time to take a peek into a bit of my novelling process. Every time I write a book, I use a slightly different process, because...
by Jane Maree | 17 August 2018 | Writing |
Disclaimer: this is a satirical post meant to amuse, not to instruct. You have been warned. 😉 Having realistic characters is a huge step toward having a great book. The readers will have someone to relate to and to cheer for. Some characters take a lot of time to...
by Jane Maree | 10 August 2018 | Writing |
Editing other peoples’ manuscripts is really fun. I love helping them out. I love reading their stories. I love suggesting ways to make the story better and greater and more amazing than ever. When it comes to editing my own books…it’s a whole lot...
by Jane Maree | 3 August 2018 | Books, Writing |
It’s been a while since I’ve done a ramble-about-books post aside from reivews and launches, so when some suggested I post about fictional friendships I thought it was the perfect opportunity. Obviously, I could’ve done a post about why friendships...
by Jane Maree | 27 July 2018 | Books, Writing |
Despite it being a Camp NaNoWriMo month—and thus having me busy writing the first draft of a new novel—I’ve been in a bit of a short story mood recently. New characters appearing and bouncing around inside my head until I grant them a short scene, old characters...
by Jane Maree | 13 July 2018 | Life, Writing |
I’ve only got a fairly short post today, but I’m going to point it all on Camp NaNo. (Because I need a scapegoat and that is as good as I can get. 😛 ) July is almost halfway done, and the writing has been all happening like usual. I feel like I...
by Jane Maree | 29 June 2018 | Life, Writing |
If you’ve hung around here for very long, you’ll probably have put two and two together and worked out that I can’t do maths. What can I say? I’m a writer, not an engineer. You also might’ve put four and four together and realised that...
by Jane Maree | 22 June 2018 | Writing |
Considering the writing craft is a lot about silently sitting in a cosy corner and transferring your brain onto a page, there’s a lot of terms and confusing jargon about Voice. Author voice, character voice, tiny-little-grammar-Nazi-on-your-shoulder voice....
by Jane Maree | 15 June 2018 | Life, Writing |
One of the most satisfying moments about writing a novel, is that blissful moment when you type “The End” on the last page of a manuscript. The moment after typing that is, of course, the moment when you realise that editing is a thing. BUT for one....
