If you Google something like, “Things you should never say to a writer,” you’ll find quite a few articles. I spent some time doing that yesterday, because I’d hit my limit. There are some nice people out there, but even nice people can say some well-meaning-yet-incredibly-soul-crushing things. They just don’t realize how things look/sound/feel, etc. from the other side. I didn’t
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If all of the “How to write a book” advice is legit, then I’m quite the shit writer. Don’t get me wrong: I am more than willing to believe that I’m a shit writer. But wow, am I ever failing to check off some boxes. If you spend any time at all on the internet and show an interest in
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In a world full of things I never seem to get around to doing (or finishing), it’s nice to be able to point to things that actually represent progress. A progress report on book 2 would look something like this: First draft: finished. Second draft: 85% finished (though I’m adding a couple of new bits, so that percentage should probably
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So, here’s something that keeps irritating me — I just haven’t gotten around to whinging about it yet. What freaking genre am I writing in? Early on, I always thought of There’s No Such Thing as Vampires as horror. No question, hands down, it’s horror. Right? Then someone else casually dropped the words “urban fantasy” into my delicate ears, and
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Before I forget (again) – all of the Twitch story streams have been edited down to just the story bits and posted on YouTube. You’ll mostly be spared the bits where I talk. If you, for some unknown reason, actually want to listen to the bits where I talk, you can watch those videos over on Twitch (where they are
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Heather Masterson 