by Christie Meierz | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lots of folks are gearing up for NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. According to the website, there are over 200,000 people registered. Thatsa lotta books. I’m not one of that 200,000+, and I feel guilty for some strange reason. Not that I feel some...
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 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
No one likes to talk about the death of a child.I learned that the hard way, by losing one and then finding that no one wanted to hear about it. Thirty years ago today, I lost a ten-month-old son to congestive heart failure. He was born tiny and sick, and he never...
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 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
That number over there –> is 78,236 this morning, before I get started. Before I get started, I look around. At the dust in the corner. At the cluttered coffee table. And so on. And you know what? I’m not going to clean it, because <drum roll>: I...
