What’s up with Gwen these days?

  • Picking a New Book to Write

    Still deep in the querying trenches with SHROUD OF DAWN, it’s well past time I picked a new project to work on. I have several (well, more than several) ideas and half-finished zero drafts, and I tried to Commit to one of them arbitrarily; that didn’t work, so I tried to Commit to another one…

  • Shroud of Dawn Finished! Draft 5 is, anyway

    You may be thinking to yourself: SHROUD OF DAWN is called “Novel 002” because THE RAVEN was the first book, right? Wrong! THE RAVEN is actually called “Novel 003”. I don’t need to explain myself to you. (I will, though: Novel 001 was a bit ambitious for me, so I shelved it. I’ll circle back…

  • Still Almost Done

    It turns out that not having a lot of experience writing endings makes endings difficult to write. Interesting…  I’ve been stuck at the end of Shroud of Dawn for a little while now; I know what I need to solve, but not how to solve it–and it’s difficult to ask for help from anyone other…

  • The Race to Be Imperfect

    Working on SHROUD OF DAWN, I’m finding out that it’s criminally difficult to both put out a work that you’re proud of and to put it out in a timely manner. Some wise man once said that if 100% is perfection, then we should all strive for 80%; and they’re right, of course. But why…

  • On Editing

    Hey folks! Diving back into my scifi-western after taking some time away from it and it is a BREATH of fresh air!! It’s when you’re in the weeds of a draft that imposter syndrome really kicks in–and it’s here, returning home from vacation, that you realize how much you do love your home, and the…