A Goodreads user asked Cynthia Robinson:

Where do you write your stories? In a notebook? Do you write on a certain website?

Cynthia Robinson My head is where they start, and they are always in there somewhere, demanding my attention when I should really be focused on something else. I use note cards a lot before I ever write out a chapter or a scene or a story on the screen. I then type basic plot points out in a Word document, and add in any phrases or bits of dialogue that I absolutely want in there. Then I flesh out, read over, print up and start the process all over again to produce the next draft. I have found (for me... this might be horrible for someone else, every writer has to find her process and that takes some time and some mistakes and some trial and error) that this works for me at the macro level--i.e., plot of an entire novel--and for individual chapters, and even for individual scenes in chapters. And of course for short stories, and for individual scenes in those stories. Whenever I am stuck, I get out the note cards! (and of course I recycle...). Some of my stories are available in their entirety on my website, www.cynthiarobinsonbooks.com , and samples of others are there as well (under "Other Writings"; I post whatever word count the journal in question will allow). I also do weekly blog posts on the same site, usually late at night on Fridays (EST in the US). Currently, it's the Bad, Bad Love blog, and the accompanying pictures often feature stilettos. Love your screen name, btw: real queens definitely fix other queens' crowns.

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