Musings of a Novelista

A while ago I wrote a blog post about the book, Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell.
So it is ironic that now I’m writing a blog post about a book titled The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
I stumbled upon this book a few weeks ago, and was grateful to have [...]

Ah, so much for not blogging anymore this week! But one of my writer friends, Christine Taylor-Butler shared something off of Twitter of all places—wow, I must look into this Twitter thing—it seems like all the cool kids are doing it.
Anyway, Christine shared a blog post over at the My Story Writer blog. The post, [...]

A lot of writers do character sketches. Some writers do interviews with their characters. Some even do whole biographies from birth to current novel time for character development.
One thing that I do consistently that sort of helps me figure out a character in the very beginning is to do a Myers-Brigg assessment of the character [...]

Taking a break from revision update posts. But I’m almost at the finish line. I should be complete with this first round of revisions by the end of this year. Yay! One accomplishment almost done.
I’m also very excited about joining back up with my critique group. I first met these talented writers way back [...]

I had another good writing session that went late into the night. Plus, I’ve settled back into my old writing space—my bed! Hey it works for Meg Cabot.
It’s now confirmed that I’m a night owl writer. I can get up in the morning but there’s something about the late night. Hearing the crickets. The settling [...]