Recently my publisher and I went on the hunt for a perfect title for a sweet romance novella…and it nearly ended in tears, ropes, and eye bleach. This is the first title I’ve really changed after submission, and while the original title was good…it was also a bondage title…several times over.  Oops. We thought it’d be easy to find […]

I’ve actually been so stressed and busy that I haven’t had as much time to do research for my Ratman novel…which is a shame because I should be able to finish drafting it in a couple days of work–maybe this weekend. BUT what research I have done in the last two weeks…has been Watchlist worthy. Here is my websearch history […]

  I’m going to do something different this Wednesday and post some things I wrote a long, long time ago in high school. I used to be really into poetry–because I was in high school and dealing with the dark days of untreated OCD. Now, the rhyming and trying to get the emphasis right gives me a headache every time. […]

  So, you know you’re working on something weird when your husband buys you the above Hot Wheels for inspiration, and you’re all, “AWESOME! That’s perfect!!!” If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen tweets about rats and more rats and then some rats. My current WIP is very rat-centric. It’s a romance where a mad scientist crosses wires with […]

  Since I’ve been buried in writing and revising and gotten onto entirely new watchlists, I thought I’d do another Watchlist Wednesday for the last two weeks. Hey! This weekend is a full moon weekend (almost…close enough) so I’ll be posting two more parts of the serial on Friday and Saturday…come back and read and comment. *shiny, hopeful eyes* So, […]

  I’ve seen quite a few writers on Twitter deshelving lately–including myself. I imagine every writer has shelved a book or two or dozen…or maybe not an entire book–you hit 7K and you draw a blank or just scream, “It’s CRAP!” and twitch. I’m working on five years of being at the writing game, so I have a bunch of […]

  So, a while back I did a history of my web search history while writing Push Me and people were amused at the very least. The last two weeks, I’ve written or revised six different projects–and a writer’s history is always a bit watchlist worthy, so I thought you’d enjoy visiting the scary world of Wendy’s brain in research […]

  I know. That’s a weird title. It was “Deep is Painful” but I couldn’t find an appropriate picture that wasn’t also creepy. It might be slightly creepy with this painting actually… Anyway, so this is another revision week. If you missed last week’s post on cutting words–that’s what I’m doing still and you should go check that out and […]

  I’m working on a revision–which is to say I’m a breathing, working writer. Revision is the other side of writing.  I spend more time revising than actually writing. Something always needs revision and, if you’re prolific, maybe several things need revision all at once. As I’ve grown as a writer, I’ve started to notice words that show up for […]

  Last night, I taught a sketching class to a few girls…or I tried to anyway. (I’m mostly self-taught.)  And I took this unfinished self-portrait to show them. This is one of the last paintings I worked on before I set my paintbrushes aside to work on writing. And I think about it a lot. I want to finish it, […]