Long ago, when I was young and innocent and just starting out on my journey through the world of publishing, I had the idea that my job was to write a book good enough to be published. Once I did that, everything else would follow—because if it’s good enough to be published, that means it’llContinue reading “Lies Writers Tell Ourselves: Publishable Quality”
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Go Back and Revise, or Keep Drafting?
I’m at that point on my WIP where I know I’m going to make some edits to chapters I’ve already written that will significantly change a viewpoint character. I have to make the choice whether to go back and revise now, or to forge ahead and finish the first draft before revising. Normally, I’m aContinue reading “Go Back and Revise, or Keep Drafting?”
Powers Most Super
On a long car drive back from New York this weekend, my older daughter asked my husband and I what we thought were some of the coolest fictional powers we’d seen in books, TV, comics, etc. (This is, by the way, an awesome way to make about half an hour pass without noticing.) The conversationContinue reading “Powers Most Super”
Melissa Caruso 