Author: Cassandra Chandler
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ORACon!
I’m going to my first writing convention this week! It’s called ORACon—the Ozarks Romance Authors Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting other authors and getting to talk face-to-face with my editor. It’s a very busy time with finishing the first round of edits for the second scifi romance novella, editing the third in that series…
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Self-Talk
I can keep track of dozens of books in multiple series, yet I often lose track of the scripts running in my own head. This is a problem, because my thoughts aren’t always running along the tracks I intend. Often, they’re off the rails entirely. I can lose perspective and get bogged down in minutia—things…
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Self-Doubt is Lying
Some parts of my process are really fun. The idea stage, the planning stage—mapping things out with an outline, checking my pacing, discovering themes. My absolute favorite part is formatting the finished work as an ebook and reading it through to check the readers’ experience. Other parts are not so much fun, and self-doubt is…
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What are you working toward?
Last week I talked about one of my favorite writing questions: What are you working on? There’s another question that’s just as important: What are you working toward? I think about this a lot. I make plans and goals. I break things down into manageable tasks and give myself deadlines. Sometimes I make them and…
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Nostalgia—or a Message?
I had the opportunity to catch up with a friend recently and they asked my dearest question. What are you writing lately? The conversation somehow trailed back to earlier ideas—stories I haven’t thought about in years and never wrote down but was excited to tell them about. The next day, another friend triggered a memory…
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Awesome News!
It’s been one month since Wandering Soul was published. I have to admit, it threw me for more of a loop than I anticipated. There were many days of stunned staring as my brain gradually acknowledged that this is real! My first book is out there and being read (and enjoyed 😀 ). It’s been…
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Why Romance?
Sometimes people ask me why I choose to write Romances. First and foremost—I am a fan of love. The initial spark of attraction, the deepening knowledge of each other that feeds the fire, the moment when the warmth of the emotion soaks in soul-deep and they know. I can’t get enough of that. Second—I am…
Cassandra Chandler 