by Michelle | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
This book from Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi, the authors of The Emotion Thesaurus, is the one I have been waiting for. The Conflict Thesaurus is set up like the other books in their series: part how-to, part thesaurus. This guide shows writers how to maximize...
by Michelle | May 3, 2021 | Blog, Courses
A short time ago (about two years if anyone’s counting) I participated in a critique group for deep pov run by Lisa Hall Wilson. I joined the critique group thinking I knew more about this pov than I actually did, and although I got a lot out of this, I decided...
by Michelle | Mar 18, 2021 | Blog, Professional Development
For some time now (well over a year) I have been thinking about training to become an accredited writing/book coach. This came about as I often receive requests to do a developmental edit for new authors, but sometimes an edit isn’t enough, or rather, it...
by Michelle | Feb 13, 2021 | Writing Journal
Following on from my last post about pinning down the location of my story (in October), the notion to do a little more research took hold of me this morning. And the reason it grabbed hold of me is that my story is based sometime in the future, yet I keep putting...
by Michelle | Feb 9, 2021 | Books, Reviewed, Reviews
A WORLD HALF IN DARKNESS. A SECRET SHE MUST BRING TO LIGHT. 2059. The world has stopped turning. One half suffers an endless frozen night; the other, nothing but burning sun. Only in a slim twilit region between them can life survive. In an isolationist Britain,...
by Michelle | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, Coaching
Prowritingaid is running free training sessions for writers of fantasy from Feb 22nd to 26th. There will be live sessions with TJ Klune, Angela J. Ford, David Farland and Stephanie BwaBwa, a world-building workshop, a complete World Anvil software walkthrough and...
by Michelle | Jan 13, 2021 | TBR, To be read
Book Description Nathan, emotionally scarred after three tours in Afghanistan, lives alone in Manhattan until New Year’s Eve, when he meets Lara. The next morning, he notices that something odd is going on – a terrified kid is being pursued by his father, and a young...
by Michelle | Jan 12, 2021 | TBR, To be read
Book Description The year is 2055, global warming has happened, and the oil and gas corporations responsible for creating it have developed a ‘cure’. Using climate control technology, they are able to manage and create new weather conditions, but only for...
by Michelle | Jan 7, 2021 | TBR, To be read
Book description: A thousand specially selected people leave a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world many years away. Their starship is state-of-the-art and entirely automatic; its passengers safely sleeping through the long journey. All possible scenarios...
by Michelle | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, Bullet Journal, Planning, Scheduling
Between Christmas and New Year, I go through a period of self-assessment and analysis of how my business is doing and make goals and (lots of) promises (to myself) on how I can improve during the year ahead. The end result of this is lots of to-do lists, blank stat...
