Category: Thoughts
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Scifi Swears
I am a person who swears quite a bit. I tried to quit as my New Year’s resolution this year, and lasted about twenty minutes (to the amusement of everyone who knows me in RL). Not all of my characters swear, but I like them to have the option if it fits their personalities. I…
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Finding Value
One of the best parts of being a writer is those moments of discovery, when a character reveals something about themselves or their world that you didn’t see coming. I learned a ton about the Coalition of Planets while writing Export Duty. I brought my own preconceptions to the novella when I started to write…
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Export Duty: Meet the Cast!
We’re only a week away from Export Duty‘s release! I’m so excited to share this book with you all ❤ While we wait, I thought I’d introduce you to the main cast 😀
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Quickening Moon Goals Progress
The Quickening Moon lived up to its name this month! An opportunity arose that I wanted to be part of, and since my novella was done, I ended up doing a cover reveal, getting the pre-order ready, and making the print version in record time.
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Vision Boards
There are certain steps in starting out a new project that I now realize are not optional. They provide fuel that keeps me going, even activating my subconscious. One of the most important of these steps is to make desktop wallpapers for my devices—my own take on a vision board. I learn so much about…
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Inception
No, not the movie 🙂 I’m talking about the beginnings of an idea. The seed of a story. That moment when you realize you may have some ephemeral thing that maybe—just maybe—you can transform into words on a page. Because once you have your characters, you need a grand adventure for them to go on.…
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Goals for the Quickening Moon
Happy New Moon day! At least, in my part of the world 🙂 February’s full moon is called the Quickening Moon in some Celtic traditions, and it is one of my favorites. Things are happening. Energy is gathering. Momentum is building. Beneath the frozen earth, things are pushing, pushing, pushing toward the surface. We may…
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Fictional Relationships
There’s another type of conflict that I consider important enough to get it’s own sub-category within internal and external conflict when I’m thinking through my writing, and that’s relationship conflict. With any of the Romance genres, this is especially important to establish and work through. Honestly, I think it’s just as important with any character-driven…
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Writing Conflict
We’ve talked about writing sympathetic characters, writing three-dimensional characters, and giving our characters pasts. All of these things are meant to create characters that readers can truly connect to in one way or another. Writing conflict is what activates the connection we’ve established. If a character sits around doing nothing, there is no story. If…
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Cold Moon Goals Progress
Looking back on my post for the new moon this month, I actually made a lot more progress than I realized! My planners for 2019 are set up (I actually have three of them), and though I haven’t mapped out exactly when I’ll be working on each writing project, I’m ready to roll with the…
Cassandra Chandler 