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I'm at that stage of writing The Song of the Blackthorn Tree where the world has gotten so huge and complex that it's finally time to bring in an editor to help me out. 

When I brought her onto the p...

Last week, I went to see the new Superman movie twice in 48 hours. 

It's not unusual for me to hyper-fixate on something I really like - when I was a kid, I watched How to Train Your Dragon every day...

"THIS LOOKS INCREDIBLY STUPID," I said as I flipped on Netflix and the trailer to K-POP DEMON HUNTER started playing. 

"This is something I'll never watch." 

"This is the dumbest thing I've ever see...

I'm a bit of a spooky gal in real life. Halloween is my favorite holiday and October is my favorite month of the year.

And even though it's July, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic this week so we're diving...

Last week we talked all about villains that scare us silly. I gushed about Mindhunter and Darth Vader and all things villainous. (you can read that post here). 

That got me thinking...what about nega...

I was watching Mindhunter recently and was scared out of my mind when one of the villains - who is a real-life person they included in the show - did something really creepy. 

Like, really creepy. 

We talk a lot about story structure on this blog. It's an important thing - without it, it's really easy to get lost in the book that you're writing. But there is a secret story structure (okay, not t...

The most basic skill a writer needs to create something "good" (in quotation marks, because that's a subjective term, but it works for now) is knowing what to write. 

Literally. 

Putting one word do...

Wow. Typing that title into my blog writer this morning was surreal. I have been sitting on this story since I was five, and it seems a little insane to finally say, "okay world. We're under way." 

B...

We're back with another week of Rachel-can't-commit-to-anything-so-she-freaks-out-a-bit-and-does-nothing - 

Just kidding. It been a wild week, for sure, but some really good things are happening, and...

Okay, so I need your help this time. 

I'm working on three different projects, and I love all of them. One of them you know about (The Order) but the other two I've kept pretty close to the chest. 

Are we already to week 9? Holy cow! Just writing this down I feel like a miscounted (I probably did - it happens a lot). 

Anyway, you've probably noticed I've been working a lot on worldbuilding. It'...