If I need an idea, all I have to do is lay on my stomach. It's become a trigger for me (for reasons you really don't want to know). Roll onto...
My 6-year-old still asks the bears at the zoo if Goldilocks ate all the porridge this morning (and he's being serious). So it really depends on...
I use NaNo to plunk out a first draft that I can then beat with a stick until a finished product falls out. And every year I end up with something...
I have extensive experience with voice-to-text, and it's always, always slower than typing (if you're not touching the keyboard, adding...
I too have multiple projects on the go, and I love flipping between them, so I set very firm rules for myself. I work on my primary project (which...
I use earplugs.
I enjoyed my university classes more than high school, but the thing I really loved about high school was that we did everything. I took 4 Grade...
I can tell you that my agent wouldn't touch an unpolished manuscript for any reason. I doubt very many would. Either polish the thing or don't,...
I do call myself a writer, but I didn't before I actually made money at it. To me, that would have been disingenuous. If someone asked me what I...
I really get my back up when someone says "if you're writing for money, you should just stop writing." I write for money (and I make a decent...
There is a big difference, legally speaking, between derived from and inspired by. It seems, from what's been written, that Sue has moved into...
I try to make a plan, but I inevitably forget what the plan was. I try to make notes, then lose the notecards or reformat my computer. So I...
I almost never mention skin color (except in my sci-fi series, but that's because a certain subset of the popular has pinkish skin due to genetic...
To be frank (because I'd rather not be Bill), coming up with an NDA is a horrible waste of time. No professional, editor or agent, is going to...
I'm more bothered that I'm not bothered by my own thoughts.
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