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Infinity Edge

Since when do Muses need vacations? Apparently mine does, which is why he’s been suspiciously absent from the blog. Oh, wait, here he is … I brush aside the palmetto […]

September 22, 2014 Kirsten19 Comments
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Believe

No, I haven’t utterly disappeared! But I’ve been pulled head over heels back into my writing as I’ve fallen in love with my story again. What’s it like to be […]

July 20, 2014 Kirsten19 Comments

Write Much Lately?

I hear a loud slurping sound as I open my morning pages. Suspiciously, I type, “What is it now, Muse?” And there he is sprawled in the middle of my […]

May 18, 2014 Kirsten22 Comments

Backstage at the Blog: M is for Muse

I sat down to write my letter M post about margins– or media–or menus … Umm, no. The letter M is well represented around here by the Muse, so I […]

April 15, 2014 Kirsten25 Comments

Backstage at the Blog: C is for Copyright

This stuff is mine, all mine. (Okay, mostly, but more on that further down.) When I first started writing, I was very open about sharing everything I created. I figured, […]

April 3, 2014 Kirsten24 Comments

Carry On, Writer-Babe

Back by popular demand … I glance at the floor next to my desk, where my despondent Muse has been sitting for days now. His wings lie dull and shaggy […]

March 16, 2014 Kirsten27 Comments

On my Cloud-Colored Steed

As I close in on the finish line of NaNoWriMo and look back on what I’ve written, I sometimes wonder if I should have attempted another fifty thousand word foray […]

November 25, 2013 Kirsten28 Comments

IWSG: Intervention

Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh, I now have an excuse to expound upon my self-doubt without fear of reprisals! If you’d like to join us at the Insecure Writer’s Support […]

May 1, 2013 Kirsten33 Comments

So Obvious in Hindsight

Me again, talking about my revision. This is so big, I just have to share. I was not expecting much today, because I’m managing a minor Muse meltdown. He is […]

February 19, 2013 Kirsten15 Comments

Conjuring Up Characters

Buckle up, folks. This post got a little long on me! But a fellow student at How to Think Sideways had a question about how writers might understand their characters […]

August 30, 2012 Kirsten16 Comments

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