Cora Zane's Blog, page 8

Writer's Block and Revision Tip

I actually wrote this back in January, but wasn't able to access blogger without my comp crashing. Then I forgot about the post entirely until I needed to use the techniques again.

I thought it might help others who are either struggling to get words down on the page, or who need help revising a piece. I began doing this toward the end of my revisions for Chasing Moonlight, around the time I began to suspect I'd never get it finished. It helped me pick up the pace and complete the revisions mu...

Life Updates, Mostly Boring

Image Courtesy of Open Clip ArtI'm happy to say I've been dwelling in the writing cave for the past two months. I spent most of May studying, planning birthday parties, and working on an extremely detailed outline. The stuff of life. I'm now finally getting around to the actual "writing" part of the writing. The draft is coming along nicely, and it seems to be working up faster than if I had not prewritten it in expanded outline form. That's a perk.

Plus, the detailed outlining has helped me g...

Dominant Territory - Reissue - Now on Smashwords

Dominant Territory is now available on Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/804702
The moment Libby steps into the Moonlight Run with her girlfriends, she realizes this is no place for a ladies’ night out. The backwoods bar is isolated for a reason—they cater to werewolves on the eve of the change. 
Drake never considered taking a human mate...until tonight. One look at Libby and his heart is lost. She entered his territory, and now he'll stop at nothing to claim her as h...

Clear the Deck - A 2018 Celebration of Creativity

Back in December, I decided that for the new year, I would focus on creativity. That started
simply enough, by working on breaking the creative blocks I have. I've stuck with that
resolution, writing at least three pages every day. I began working on my creative blocks with
books like Write to Heal (Tom Bird) and The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron), and I'm still using those methods to let the words just pour out, whether good or bad. The point is to jot the words down as they come to me, then let...

Happy Valentine's Day

Hubs is awesome. What a sweet guy. He brought me a box of chocolates, a fluffy pillow with hearts all over it, and a gi-normous triceratops stuffed animal for Valentine's Day. The triceratops has been officially named Dragon, and he makes an excellent pillow. He has that soft "blumaroo fur" as we call it. Part of our house slang, if you will. It's the type of plush fur I imagine a Neopet's blumaroo has. The really soft and silky kind. 

Now to go break into that box of chocolate! ☺☻☺☻

Here'...

Chasing Moonlight reissue - In ePub on Smashwords

The reissue for Chasing Moonlight is now available on Smashwords in ePub format. More format are forthcoming ASAP!

 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/791336

About the book:
Blaze Logan can't figure out why Shelby keeps avoiding him, especially since he's sure the shy beauty is his mate. When she breaks one date too many, he goes to her cabin to call her out, only to find her in the throes of a painful transformation.

Shelby's secret is out. Unable to control her inner wolf, she is at the...

All The Crazy Endless Things

I'm almost finished with revising the epilogue for Chasing Moonlight. I should have it up on
Smashwords in a couple of days. After that, onward to new things. I've already begun working
on the next book in the series--Seth's story. It's very important to me to get in these last two
key books.

There is so much going on with me right now, but I really don't know what to talk about. I guess
I'll just ramble through this post and see where it goes. How about that?

I'm still participating in Julia Camer...

To Epilogue or Not to Epilogue...That is the Question

I'm currently revising the last chapter in this book I had previously published with an epublisher, and it's been such an uphill battle breaking the book apart and inserting a few extra scenes, that I'm hesitant to mess with it much beyond what is already there and polished.

But...I kind of feel like it needs an epilogue. What's one more scene, right? Right? *crickets* I'm so ready to be finished with this revamp that even a 500-1000 word epilogue feels like a major ordeal. Then again, I'd hat...

Heart, Heart / Kiss, Kiss

What have I gotten myself into now?  I'm on Week 5 of The Artist's Way. Oh, did I not mention that I was doing the program? It appears this is my first post of the New Year, so I guess I haven't. By the way, Happy New Year! It's the year of the Yellow Earth Dog. Woof.

So, okay, I'm going through The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron), and I just made it throught that whole week of reading deprivation - at least I think I did the whole week since I haven't been hardcore keeping track. I can't be...

RIP Puff N' Stuff

It's been an interesting 2017 to say the least. Okay, in truth, it's been a hard year with a lot of heartache and sickness. I'm counting on 2018 to be better, because the alternative simply isn't acceptible to me.

We did have a good Christmas, but it was shadowed by the loss of our sweet kitty Puffin. He was technically a feral kitty that would sleep on an Amazon box in the dining room. He had the teeniest tiniest meow, and left the biggest stinkiest litter box "gifts". Ahem. He was a personal...