David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

What Time Devours

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

Coyote Dreams

The Zombies Are Coming!

Hey y’all!  I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a new regular here!  Seriously, I remember going to my first ConCarolinas and seeing Faith and David and Misty on panels and being so awed!   And now here I am blogging with them!  Squee! (I promise my books don’t [...]

My MO

One quick note, Y’all. On Tuesday the 16th of February, we’ll have a guest blogger, Kim Harrison. Hope you’ll join us that day for a special post!

In the life of a writer, little is more boring or more necessary than the first rewrites. When I was writing mystery/thrillers, the first rewrite was between pages 100 [...]

Evolution of the Novel Part 3

For the past 3 weeks I’ve been posting on the evolution of voice and genre, as shown in the WIP, written (and still being rewritten) by Tiffany (Tiff), a writer I have been working with for 2 or 3 years. With Tiff’s permission, I told her story and how she found a narrator’s voice and [...]

Pink Elephants, and Rivers, and Gilligan, Oh MY! (And Writing)

 Last week, Christina spoke about dry spells in the area of idea creation:
Some writers say that ideas are just overflowing with them. I’m not one of them. I go through serious dry spells on ideas. And when I do, I try to read other things or watch TV shows to [...]

Thoughts from a testing lab

I’m working in a testing lab for the next two weeks, overseeing the testing computers and resetting them when they go wrong (which they do several times each hour.) For example, a student called me over a few minutes ago to look at his screen. There was an equation to solve, and the [...]

Friday Fun: Joshua Palmatier!

Happy Friday, everyone! Please join me in welcoming Joshua Palmatier to the blog today! *wild applause*

Hey, everyone! I first want to thank everyone here at Magical Words for the guest blogging invite. Hopefully I’ll have something important to say. Or at least something of interest.

First, an introduction: My name [...]