David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

Will Power

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

Coyote Dreams

Snap Thy Holy Fingers

I love movies and books about the mystical nature of religion. Constantine, Stigmata, The Seventh Seal, The Prophecy…I just cannot resist them. The other day I watched a movie trailer for Legion, in which God sends his angels to exterminate the world’s population. The archangel Michael (played by the wonderful Paul Bettany) [...]

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 [...]

Writing Your Book, part II: Finding Your Voice

This past week, Catie and I both began blog “series” in writing, and it seems that for this week and potentially down the road, there is going to be a fair amount of overlap between our posts.  Catie and I might reinforce each other’s points.  We might disagree.  That’s okay.  Getting more than one perspective [...]

Juggling

Research.  Plot.  Character.  BIC.  World-building.  Story.  Voice.  Backups.  Theme.  Scene.  Conflict.  Revisions.  Rising action.

The list goes on and on.  The question for today’s post is How do I juggle all of this?

Well, like everything in writing there is no one, simple, easy answer.  We are all unique, and we all deal with the challenges of [...]

Writing Your Book, part I: Getting Started

So, you’re following a bit of the advice we offered last week here at MW, and you’re starting that novel you’ve been thinking about all these years.  Good for you.  We (Faith’s idea initially) thought it might be helpful for us to follow the novel writing process from beginning to end in our posts over [...]

“Always”

Here at MW, we often write (whine?  gripe?) about the questions people ask us upon learning that we’re authors.  The questions range from the pragmatic — “Really?  Ever been published?” — to the crass — “Interesting.  What do you get paid for that?” — to the sublimely ridiculous — “I’ve always wanted to write but [...]