It was a dark and stormy night is one of the most famous, cliches of an opening line around. (Although, I admit I had to Google the original source – check out the wikipedia article if you’re interested)

But I thought I’d have some fun with it and do a few variations on [...]

As always when I start something new, I do a ton of learning and research (sounds boring but it’s not). I found some really great articles on writing at Holly Lisle’s site. I bought a couple of her e-book courses and found them really helpful and she has a blog and [...]

So what have I been up to?

I’ve been writing. I have 45,000+ words and about 10 chapters done on a YA fantasy story. I have the story complete to the end actually but after chapter 10 it goes from rough draft to notations like **add more conflict with the dragon here**. I’m getting there [...]