Let me preface this article with a warning. Do not attempt to revise an entire manuscript in one week. This is particularly true when you have two authors who also have a business to run,
We’ve just wrapped up a three-day writing sprint. We set aside the time this weekend because we’re getting super close to the end of our manuscript. YAY! We’ve been writing the climax, and soon all
It can be dangerous for a writer to let her writing brain and editing brain get too cozy. Rewriting a draft can send you into an endless spiral of zero progress. Case in point: I’d
The Grigori is already five years in the making—which feels like a long time, considering there’s nothing on the shelves yet. This is partially because, until this year, we’ve been inconsistently prioritizing the project. It’s
We’ve got a self-imposed manuscript deadline of December 2018. And that means we’ve gotta seriously speed up our writing pace. We’ve never before committed a full writing day to this project. Up until now, we’ve written
Yesterday, we reached a huge milestone in the writing process for book one: we completed Act I! Our novel is using a three-act format, and we’re marking the end of Act I as “the decision
Even though we’re in the throes of writing book one of The Grigori, we haven’t let it hold us back from pursuing the next steps with our novel. After we’ve written it, we want readers
One of the most common questions we’re asked is how. How do you write a novel when you have two authors? Especially when those authors don’t even live in the same city? The simple answer is practice. We’ve been
When you’ve been working on the same story for five years, you begin to notice the cycles of creativity and inspiration. Sometimes we’ll hammer out thousands of words in a single day. Other times, months
Every Monday, Marie attends a fiction writing critique group, where she reads aloud a section of The Grigori and receives feedback from the other writers. Yesterday’s meeting raised an interesting question: “What counts as character action?”