One week until Beta Test!
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Lofty Goals… Also known as “Karen, you’re crazy!”
Almost two months ago, I attended a very inspirational writer’s meeting, and returned home to inform my husband, “She writes a million words per year!” He happened to be sitting at his PC with a calculator in hand (no joke!), and he looked at me then punched in some numbers on the calculator. Looking back…
Lessons Learned…or Relearned, as the Case May Be
It’s that time of year, when the media recaps big events of the past 348 days or so and/or people announce their resolutions or goals for the coming year. In that vein, but hopefully with a twist, I’m sharing the things I’ve learned since mid-January/February. I’ve learned a lot, which frankly, is a vast understatement.…
Irons in the Fire
I’ve come to the realization that there’s a difference between ambition and over-doing it. With the best of intentions, I planned to write a novella for Jackie and Volt this November during NaNoWriMo. However, I’m within 24,000 words of completing the first draft of Beta Test. Attempting two works-in-progress simultaneously isn’t just a headache. It’s…
Word Choices
Word choices matter. Connotations are as subjective as our tastes in clothes. It seems fairly often, I see a short thread of tweets about overused words. Note: apparently many of us writers (myself included) have a sick love affair with the word smirk, to the point it annoys certain readers. (When my editor first perused…
Summer Recap
It’s the last week of summer vacation this week at Chez Renee! It’s hard to believe, how the time has gone by so quickly even though it didn’t seem that way at the time. This means we’ll be trying to cram in as much stuff as we can in a mere seven days. Everything from…
Music & Artificial Intelligence
Hello! I’m deep in edit mode for Inciting a Riot since I just got the manuscript back from my editor yesterday afternoon, but I had this notion/anecdote to share…so I’m going to crank out a quick blog post and get back to readying Inciting a Riot for publishing in August. I don’t know a lot…
Making Someone Cry?
I made someone cry! I don’t remember ever making a complete stranger cry. However, a reader who finished Unforeseen Riot tells the world of Amazon that indeed I did. This made me gasp in surprise and with excitement. Not that I intend to make readers cry. I’m honestly just impressed that my words could speak…
Writer’s High
The fabulous website smashwords.com offers independent authors the opportunity to participate in an online interview so readers can get to know authors better. One of the questions in my interview was “What is the greatest joy of writing for you?” I mentioned that I was working on a blog post about the writer’s high. To…
It Takes a Village
The title of this post is a very commonly used phrase regarding raising children. Before I ever became pregnant, let alone had a child under my constant care, I genuinely did not like this phrase. However, now that I have a small human under my care, I realize more than ever just how critical the…
Greetings from Karen Renee!
Hi! Thank you for visiting my website. Currently, my first novel Unforseen Riot, the first in the Riot MC series, is being edited. The expected launch date is April 30, 2018. To say I am excited, is a vast understatement. I’ve aspired to be a writer since I was eight or nine years old, but my…
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