Posted by Michelle Smith on Monday, April 11, 2011,
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What's on Pandora: Adiemus, Dawn Dancing| Adiemus III: Dances of Time What's on the Nightstand: JosephCampbell|Hero with a Thousand FacesSave the Words Word of the Day: Locupletative (adj) tending to enrichAmongst the many suggestions to, I finally picked up JosephCampbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Friends, peers and colleagues suggested I do so after they had started reading the atrociously long and complicated rough draft that is The Last Scion, the first Shadows Saga book. While TLS has... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Tuesday, March 22, 2011,
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What's on the nightstand: Nothing but dust and dirty tissues. Catching up on industry news and friends' blogs. What's on Pandora: Elegia by Adiemus| The Journey....the Best of AdiemusSave the Words Word of the Day (don't let good words die, rotate them into your vocabulary!): tortiloquy N| Dishonest or immoral speech.
Blog, (what a funny word, I know, it's a hybridized mash up of web log, but still, weird word) I apologize, I do not feel like I am obligated to you. In a good way. But it seems... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Thursday, September 16, 2010,
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This year my writing world has been productive. More productive than it has been in the last 3 1/2 years (basically since I started & finished my bachelor's program). This summer I made it a point to get more involved in the industry. I read from the genre I love to write in and completed the entire Sigma Force series, the entire Millennium series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series), and tried as best I could to get through Oryx and Crake. I'm all for a apocalyptic stories, whether the ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Friday, August 20, 2010,
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Love that word, maelstrom. The Scandinavian word maelström was introduced into English by Edgar Allen Poe, and anyone who knows my love for things dark and on the outskirts of mainstream, Poe has got to be a favorite of mine. But maelstrom is defined as a powerful whirlpool. And that's what my muse has been dragging me through as new story ideas and plot enhancements to WIPs have been taking me by storm. I have yet another story that has yanked my attention away from Tree of Life. It's a fan... Continue reading ...
Posted by Michelle Smith on Friday, April 30, 2010,
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As I reread, revise and edit The Last Scion, the ground-laying novel and world builder for the Darkling series, I have found 27 unnecessary passages. From infancy through 6000 years of Ahmavia's and the Darkling's birth, culture and life--lots of things happened historically. I wanted to embed the Darklings into stone history was written with, and while some of it I'll keep in a summary form, I see it's too much to bog the reader down. In essence, it's not essential to the story, the furtheri... Continue reading ...
Characters. Antagonists and protagonists, supporting and unimportant--we all have them. But how do we get them? How do we name them? The all seem to have their own unique personalities with minds of their own who hijack scenes and steal the plotline from you. They live inside us like some sort of latent personality disorder and are all distinct individuals. How do they get there?
Who is our inspiration for our characters? For me, they all seem to possess elements of people I know. I think it's... Continue reading ...
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