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 | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Australian science fiction writer AC Flory recently tagged me in a blog chain focusing on how writers write. Meeks, as her friends affectionately call her, is writing a series of books from an alien point of view, the first of which, Vokhtah, is out in e-book format....
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 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...
