by Christie Meierz | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Five chapters left to edit. I’m down to the very hardest part. This time last year, I was struggling with the first edition of Daughters of Suralia. Talking it over with The Husband, bouncing ideas off friends, taking my husband’s old college roomie out to...
by Christie Meierz | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m a seat-of-the-pants sort of writer. When I start a book, I have in mind a character, a situation, and a direction it’s going, but that’s usually all. After I wrote the first draft of The Fall, I had this idea: take a particular character from...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m trying a new thing in Farryn’s War: limiting myself to two point-of-view characters, and writing alternate chapters in each. As much as I like to head-hop, this is a challenge. I have to rein myself in and NOT write a scene from some interesting minor...
by Christie Meierz | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Farryn’s War just won’t leave my mind. Now, in addition to scenes of The Fall constantly playing through my mind, so do potential scenes of Farryn’s War. The other day I gave up and wrote out part of one such scene that I had to get out of my head....
by Christie Meierz | Oct 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I woke up this morning with scenes from a sequel to The Fall running through my head, and I lay in bed for a full hour letting them play out in my mind’s eye. The story will follow a Tolari named Farryn (you’ll find out who he is toward the end of The...
