what are your primary forms of research? To be specific, do you look at scientific journals, speak with people who specialize in the field, watch videos, etc? And if you go for that personal meeting with a person, how do you approach them (through email? Setup face to face meetings)? Are people in a university
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Writing Questions: Ideas and Reviews
Do you ever read someone else’s stuff and think “oh Kate would have done it this way” or then think “I could have done that better?” – then fight yourself not to use the idea? I never want to borrow someone else’s idea but sometimes what is in a story is similar to what I
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Mate Suitability Issues
I was cleaning out my email box, and found this.
State of Father
Thank you for asking how things are going. So far so good. Dad has arrived. He likes his room. A TV was installed and a bundle of Russian channels was ordered for him on Roku. A tablet was provided for his convenience so he could Skype my stepmom. I have made an apple and strawberry
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No ETA on Innkeeper: the Father is enroute
The innkeeper isn’t going to be up until the house is spotless. My father is landing at 1:00 am tonight and the focus is on making sure that I don’t get a 2:00 am lecture on the shortcomings of my housekeeping. 🙂 We will have it out to you this weekend. Hopefully.
Plot and Issues
1. How do you narrow down ideas and figure out which is workable? What elements while building a plot should I be on the look out for so I know if its feasible? You don’t know if the plot will work until you write it. You’ve seen me show trunked material. It was trunked because
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Characters, Part 2
So I have the basic layout of my story. … The problem is my characters won’t let me stick to my admittedly sketchy outline and keep taking me off on tangents. So my question is, do you ever let your characters run roughshod over your supposed plot and see where it leads you? Or do
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It Keeps Going…
So Jeaniene Frost responded to the vampire letter, and then I got CC’ed on this. This is getting more ominous by the minute. It’s good there are not a lot of deserts in Florida.
We are not dead
Thank you for the concerned emails. Nothing terrible happened. We had a rough week. We are still putting the house back together from the floor replacement. I had a really lousy reaction to the tetanus shot. My arm swelled, the injection site turned red and hard, my lymph node in my arm pit swelled to
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Saturday for Innkeeper
We are not quite getting the effect we want from this scene, and neither of us is sure why. It’s a big scene, so we are going to break for a very late lunch and see if we can take another stab at it tonight or early on Saturday. It needs to cook a bit.
More Disturbing Communication
While we are hard at work on Innkeeper and HL, our agent emailed and asked us if we knew anything about this puzzling communication she received. Things are getting deadly serious. Click to enlarge. I shudder to think what might happen next.
On Cease and Desist Letters, Ominous nature of
This came to our house by mistake. I can’t imagine why they would send it here. Dear Jeaniene, I am very concerned for you. Please call me. Link to a very disturbing letter.