INK Sisters Write

Dear Kim, I put Girls of Summer away for a spell to let her simmer before big revision #6,402. So, as you know, this means PARTY TIME. 🎉🎉🎉 Okay, not like streamers and gin parties, but starting a new novel PARTY. It is such a happy, anything-is-possible time. I can fall in love with my characters as they uncover themselves to me. Not worry about... tightening plots... revising scenes... word-freaking-choice... too many ellipses. I mean, I know where I want to go with Untitled Story. She's been the star of my journal for two weeks. See? Isn't that journal adorable. Gift from my bestie. She knows that I have a BIG obsession with LITTLE things. I filled all fifty, itty-bitty pages with backstory for CeCe, the star of  Untitled Story. ( And, don't worry, I'm not going all meta on you here, the title isn't " Untitled Story".  Just not feeling the working title: OBEAST .) Anyway, the most surprising thing for me so far with CeCe is that sh...

Dear Kim, Thank you for the note about Book Reviews . You are right; they are so important for the health of a book, and a way to support other writers. Today I have a slightly different take on a book review for you. This post wasn't meant to be a book review. I really just wanted to chat with you about research in fiction. But a review of a gripping book just appeared. You'll see. I was at the Foundation last week and a fellow young adult author was sitting with me. We got to talking about our "process" in writing genre fiction. While she said the Internet was the only tool that she used for research, I think she discounted all of the hours she spent drinking in pop culture, eye-binging Dexter, and reading the many fictional worlds that she and I talked over. My research method is much like the above when I'm writing a first draft: internet, pop culture, reading for pleasure; however, when I'm in draft- percolation -mode , I dig for more content to ...