Category Archives: Inspiration

A Conversation between Critique Partners: Trusting Your Own Work

By Susan | Published: May 20, 2013

So this isn’t really a conversation post this time–more like me adding onto Sarah’s last post. Mostly because she touched on something I feel very strongly about: The idea that having a critique partner somehow means you don’t trust your own writing. Just as Sarah said in her post: that’s not true. In fact, I’m gonna go [...]

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Writing is hard…

By Susan | Published: May 17, 2013

…so don’t give up. I don’t really have anything else to say today other than that. I’m in the middle of book 3 revisions, renovating my house, preparing lesson plans for the YAGB tour, and revising other books that have not yet sold. It all seems pretty overwhelming and insurmountable. But it isn’t. It never is. [...]

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My Current Jams

By Susan | Published: May 5, 2013

Rather than my usual trailer music, movie score, videogame soundtrack fare, I’ve been listening to some actual tunes with lyrics. I generally don’t keep up with modern bands, and at Edgefest, my friends Sarah J. Maas and Erin Bowman were getting pretty grumpy with my totally negative attitude toward new alternative rock (I think my [...]

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My life’s a bit crazy right now…

By Susan | Published: April 10, 2013

…but I swear I haven’t abandoned the blog and become a lazy person. I think I’ve mentioned this already (?), but my husband and I bought a house! Then we moved into said house three weeks ago. This house is being renovated and the workers are doing a splendid job…but they were supposed to be done [...]

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A Dawn Most Wicked cover! And some musical stuffs…

By Susan | Published: March 15, 2013

So I don’t have a whole lot to say. The Frenchman and I are packing yet again to move into a new house. Our current home is a jungle of boxes and packing paper. Hopefully this next home, though, will be the final home. At least for a few years. (I am so sick of moving! This [...]

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Pub(lishing) Crawl: Books That Inspire

By Susan | Published: March 11, 2013

Hello, everyone! We have a slightly different week for you–a week of paying forward all the many blessings we here at Pub(lishing) Crawl have had. A week of talking about who and what we’re grateful for–and a week of giving back. The idea came about after we heard about a book called Poison by Bridget [...]

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I’m back from the drafting swamp! And with exciting news in tow!

By Susan | Published: March 7, 2013

I’m BACK! Oh my gosh, that was an intense couple of months. But I come baring some news! First off: TOMORROW, me and several other authors have a very big, very COOL announcement. So stay tuned! Second: I’ll be doing this super cool event in Dallas on April 27th. Along with 9 other YA authors, I’ll [...]

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What is #BAMFWordBattle?

By Susan | Published: February 4, 2013

#BAMFWordBattle is something I started on Twitter (along with Sarah J. Maas) to help other writers get more productive. It started with #NaNoWriMoBattle back in November, but we wanted to keep doing it after the insanity that is NaNo… So #BAMFWordBattle was born. Essentially, these epic battles are 30 minute writing sprints done on Twitter. [...]

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Some Writing Inspiration and Thoughts on Lazy Muses

By Susan | Published: December 10, 2012

I am deep in Revison Land. It’s a lot like those Tilt-a-Whirl rides that make you lose all concept with reality. Or all control of your lunch… Actually, it’s a LOT like this poor guy, and all I wan to do is beg Janice to make it STOP. Actually, that’s not true. I hit a [...]

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Pub(lishing) Crawl: What WE learned from NaNoWriMo 2012

By Susan | Published: December 4, 2012

This year was Sooz’s third NaNoWriMo and Sarah’s first–needless to say, we learned a LOT about our writing processes. It doesn’t matter how many books you write, you always learn something new by the end of the ordeal (and trust us: writing is an ordeal. An amazing, fulfilling one, but an ordeal nonetheless). We thought we’d [...]

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