16 November 2015

Storyboarding London has been amazing. A decent portion of the second act my WIP is set in modern-day urban London. The scenes are intimate, hardly a sweeping landscape of that amazing city. So, I kept the storyboards for it intimate as well. Interiors, rain, coffee, bits that create strong emotion. They work well to establish…

17 October 2015

Ah, writing sprints ⁠— my favourite way to make progress on a WIP. Yes, they require me to get up at the crack of dawn, but I always get the best, very quiet, table at my favourite Vancouver café. Despite my serious addiction to the everything bagel egg melt they serve and returning home a…

9 October 2015

When I first started exploring storyboards for novels, I didn’t know how to put more than a crappy collage together. My husband tried to teach me Photoshop, and I found some tools for making collages that were still pretty complicated. Thankfully, since writing this post way back in 2015, the tools have dramatically improved. I…

30 September 2015

Light reading is not exactly how I would describe this pile. All of my book research library holds always come in on the same day, proving not only . . . wait . . . the only thing this collection proves is my level of nerdiness. Confessions of a Not-So Light Reading Addict Did I…