Sunday, May 25, 2014

My Writing Process Blog Hop

I was just tagged in this blog hop by two lovely ladies who write together as a mother-daughter team.  Helen and Lorrie write as HL Carpenter and we are all published by Musa.  You can find them over here.  

Now, I have a feeling I've already done this blog-hop, but I figure it can't hurt to do it again.  A different day may bring different answers.....



What are you currently working on?

I'm trying desperately to finish the book I dropped when I started edits on An Unstill Life.  It's slow going because I'm struggling to find my way back into it.  But with any luck, I should be done by the end of the week.  I'm calling it Finding Lana Jones, and it's about a girl who has been in juvenile prison since she was eleven and has just been released at eighteen with a new identity.

How does your writing process work?

I'm weird.  I don't write beginning to end, but start somewhere near the middle.  There's always one scene that sparks a book for me, so I write that first.  Then I work both ways from there.

How does your work differ from others of its genre?

I think I'm willing to push things further.  I don't always let the sex happen off screen or flinch away from subject matter that might make people uncomfortable.

Why do you write what you do?

I wrote a whole post on this over at the Musa Blog just a few weeks ago!  I write YA because I love the newness of everything and the uncertainty as people discover who and what they are.

Now, because I've already done this, and passed it on once, I think I'll leave it up to my readers to decide if they want to be a part of it.  So if you want to, grab the questions above and answer them on your own blog.  Just let me know in the comments so I can come and see what your process is like!


4 comments:

  1. I'm delighted to hear Lana is coming along - and that you even picked a title. I love it!! :)

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  2. I can see where starting in the middle can work well. I guess it depends on the story and how it strikes you. I usually start from both ends and fill in the middle, but I have some middles written up that need something built around them.

    Lee
    Tossing It Out

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  3. That's also why I love YA.

    I'm also trying to get into the groove of some manuscripts I had to abandon because of various deadlines.

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  4. We missed this earlier, Kate! Sorry about that, and thank you for the mention. Enjoyed reading about your process.

    Off to share with everyone. :)

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