I'm a hard-core plotter. My worst fault is I have a terrible compulsion to edit as I write, hence I'm slow, but I'm getting better at that.
 Pantsers make me nervous. So do characters who refuse to follow a synopsis.
 I have pictures all over my kitchen wall of various people and animals for the characters in my books. All my books feature nonhuman characters, and sometimes sentient jewelry.
 I have to write to music. My every-book musical standbys are Enya and Kate Price for love scenes and Axel Rudi Pell for the action and battle scenes.
 I have to write love scenes longhand first.
I never met a unicorn or elf I didn't like. LOTR, not Keebler. So why I started my serious writing career with short series contemporaries, only the weird, twisted dragon soul who drew the short straw and became my muse knows. And she's not talking. I actually wrote two - "Second Chances" and "An Angel For Gabriel". Then I learned POV, and that red dragon grabbed me by the throat and said to knock the whole contemporary-thing off. Very direct creatures, dragons. And so the "Guardians of Light" series was born. |
