editing
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Interesting, Realistic Conflict
Two things that shouldn’t be in a riveting story? Too many wild loose ends and tight pretty bows. Now the loose ends, they can flap around through out the story, being tethered down one by one, but at the end, unless you are writing a series, they should be pretty much accounted for, if not… Read more
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Rejections: the other half of pursuing a writing career
Once upon a time I had a great story concept. I was so excited about it I queried before I’d even finished the first draft (cue cringes from all writers reading this). It was, in fact, so good that I got two agent responses. One that said “I’d love to get your query when this… Read more
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End your novel with hope
A while back I mentioned in a post that I preferred my horror stories to end with hope. This actually applies to just about everything I read, with the exception of books that lay in the middle of a series. Right now this isn’t a very popular method, especially in horror. At the end of… Read more
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When a story writes itself
I have spent many nights glaring at a computer screen typing and deleting the same paragraph, willing my characters to move, trying to force a story to happen. Every writer has. When it happens, sometimes you might be lucky and some read-overs can compel your hands, or a google search can make the story lurch… Read more
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Working out of order
“Fate of a Princess” is out in the world, sorta. This weekend after numerous attempts to finish my second round of edits and clean up the end I sent it to my beta readers (my bffs) as is. I wouldn’t normally recommend this for several reasons. 1. When you do have it cleaned up, you’ll… Read more
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Don’t take my back story!
I have a problem. I love to examine motivation. I love to determine just what happened in a persons life to bring them to where they are now. I’m pretty sure it drives my husband crazy and I missed my calling as a psychiatrist. This quality of mine is the most apparent, however, in my… Read more
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Finished the book!
I just finished writing “The Silent Apocalypse”. Here’s the last line: “Liam did not mind. He supposed that they would meet again.” Chills, right? So I’m all ready to start submitting to every agent and publisher in the Eastern United States, right? (insert laughing gif here) Yeah. While I’m chomping at the bit to get… Read more
LC W. Allingham 