Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Eureka!

    One of the most common questions asked of authors is “where do you get your ideas?” I never have a good answer for this. Telling people that I have too many ideas and hate having the choose between them doesn’t ever seem to be the answer that is expected. The thing about ideas is that…

  • Happy Dance

    I had some exciting news last night – my editor has approved the manuscript for BLAZING THE TRAIL, book #3 in my paranormal YA trilogy. I’m happy that Zoë’s story is told, and I’m happy with the books. On the other hand, writing the Dragon Diaries has been quite the adventure and I’m a bit…

  • Writer’s Block

    I’ve been thinking about Annie’s comment on Monday, and on writing more blog posts about writing. Since I don’t have a guest booked for today, and it is NaNoWriMo, I thought it might be interesting to talk about the great boogeyman that plagues writers. (Or at least gives us nightmares.) Writers’ block. Writer’s block means…

  • Thoughts on Writers

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and decided to toss it out to all of you today. Do you think writers are becoming boring? I belong to a number of writers’ groups and listserves. Once upon a time, these were pretty interesting places to hang out. We’d talk about publishers and their programs…

  • NaNoWriMo

    November is National Novel Writing Month, and the annual frenzy of NaNoWriMo. This org encourages writers to push forward on the their work for the entire month of November, with the goal of writing 50,000 words by the end of the month. You can register through the site, and there are prizes available as well…