Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Writing Process

  • Free Week Results…so far

    I am not a marketing genius; the past 5 free days were my publisher’s idea. Wow it was fun. I printed out the page showing Blue Heaven at the top of the chart. It’s fun being #1. Today’s a different story, of course. Everyone got the book free and it’s down somewhere around 500K in…

  • Writing is Acting

    I had to write a really tough, emotionally draining chapter last week. This week, I need to do some research and turn it into more pages that will be just as difficult. When I wrote my first practice novels, I avoided conflict. There could be a misunderstanding or a problem, but I immediately fixed it. I still do that…

  • Deja Vu

    I had a long fun day yesterday and today I’m tired. Not in the mood to work on my new novel. Can not get movtivated. So I typed “motivation” into my own archive search box and deja vu! I have been here before. Think I’ll take my own advice and start fresh Monday since I…

  • Aries Moon*

    Never get a check up from your doctor, because if you do they will send you for a million tests, and all your free time that you used to have to write will be taken up waiting in sterile offices that do not spark the creative imagination at all. This I know from experience. In…

  • Switching Stories

    I admit I’ve been worried about it all summer. I did not want to stop the forward momentum of my current story to work on perfecting a revision of the story I’m trying to sell. And yet. It had to be done. Published authors do it all the time, working on a new project and getting…