What’s a compliment about your writing that surprised you? #writingq #WritingCommunity

What part of writing makes you completely lose track of time? Worldbuilding ❤️ #writingq #WritingCommunity

What’s a scene you almost cut but are now glad you kept? I had some backstory that ended up being more important than I initially realized. #writingq #WritingCommunity

What do you like most about editing? I used to hate it, but now I kind of like the challenge of going through each line and tossing the crap ones #writingq #WritingCommunity

My favorite part of a holiday weekend is that extra day to write before the email explosion hits me after the holiday ends. Am I the only one? #writingq #WritingCommunity

Do you write better when you know exactly where the story is going or when you don’t? I need to know the ending, otherwise, I will have a saggy middle with useless descriptions #writingq #WritingCommunity

What rule does your MC live by? Ginger believes in being honest, even if it makes her vulnerable or if it hurts #writingq #WritingCommunity

What’s worse to you—deleting a ton of words or having to add them? I never want to have to delete 30k words again, like I did with one manuscript. Just awful #writingq #WritingCommunity

Do you know your characters’ histories, or do you discover them as you write? A little bit of both for me #writingq #WritingCommunity

Do you hear dialogue in your head before you write it? I imagine it and then try to do justice to what I just imagined #writingq #WritingCommunity

What scene have you enjoyed writing the most lately? I’ve finally revised the first two chapters of my novel so that it’s so much cleaner #writingq #WritingCommunity

When do you cut repeated words in your WIP? I try to catch some in the early editing stages, but it’s when I’m nearly finished revising that I take my list and do word searches #writingq #WritingCommunity

What part of writing makes you lose track of time? Almost all of it, but especially when I start a new story #writingq #WritingCommunity

When do you think sensory details work best in a story? #writingq #WritingCommunity

What makes a character immediately interesting to you when reading and/or writing? #writingq #WritingCommunity

Do you edit as you go or wait until the first draft is finished? I do light editing as I go along because I hate typos and clunky sentences, but I do the more serious stuff after I finish the first draft #writingq #WritingCommunity

#writers what are you working on this weekend? I’m revising a novel based on recent feedback. Thank you, Megan! 😎 #writingq #WritingCommunity

What writing rule do you happily ignore? I do feel like there’s a place for adverbs, otherwise, why would any language have them? #writers #WritingCommunity #writingq

What character flaw is the most interesting for you to write? Bad people who think they’re good people or morally gray characters. Both feel more real to me #writingq #WritingCommunity

If you’ve used beta readers, do you ever think they don’t like your story but are afraid to tell you that? Or is it just me? #writingq #WritingCommunity

How have the places you have lived—or still do—affected your writing? #writingq #WritingCommunity

What’s something that you understand differently because you wrote about it? The early twentieth century in Argentina #writingq #WritingCommunity

What contradiction in human behavior do you explore in your writing? How good people can be forced into doing bad things #writingq #WritingCommunity

Have you ever written something that changed your mind about a subject? This happened to me a lot when I was writing academic articles #writingq #WritingCommunity

What do you deliberately leave unexplained in a story? The “why” behind something supernatural—at least in a short story. In a novel with more space, I tend to explain a lot more #writingq #WritingCommunity

What subject do you keep returning to in your writing, even when you don’t mean to? For me, the idea that the real monsters are people #writingq #WritingCommunity

How do you balance marketing your stories with writing them? Marketing is something I’m thinking about more and more #writingq #WritingCommunity

What do you do when a story isn’t working, and you don’t know why? I usually have to put it aside for a minute and work on something else #writingq #WritingCommunity

What’s something that readers interpret differently than you had originally intended in your story? Sometimes, readers see my monsters way differently than I do #writingq #WritingCommunity

At what point do you usually know the ending to your WIP? If I don’t know the ending or something close to it from the beginning, I can’t get started #writingq #WritingCommunity