Changes are coming to The Monster Novel Structure Workbook! I'm not doing a big launch event or anything, I'm just quietly making these updates and letting them ride. This post details all the yummy new shinies. Plans For a Print Edition I polled m ...
Before each round of Author Mentor Match (a program that matches kidlit and adult writers with mentors--next round open Feb 13th, 2020!) the previously selected mentees volunteer to do query critiques for hopefuls. I always do this, because I love gi ...
There are some things I'm good at organizing, like my writing files or my calendar. There are some things I'm downright terrible at organizing and always have been. I was the kid whose desk and floor were always covered in mess. (Creative mess!) T ...
2017 was not a good National Novel Writing Month for me. Gearing Up Only a few months before November I was hit with an idea, an idea I loved and could foresee growing into something awesome. It was a YA dystopia inspired by some gruesome things bu ...
This is the last blog post to go out to my mailing list as a newsletter-type-entry. Why? Because I've done some research and found that a newsletter--emails written specifically to be sent as a newsletter--are more popular than blog posts. Initially ...
Things haven't exactly gone as predicted this year. My habit, in years past, has been to spend the whole summer before NaNo preparing. I outline the hell out of it, which frees my mind up from worrying about plot to concentrate on prose. This year I ...
I'm impatient to get going this year. I mean, there's always some impatience going in, but this year feels stronger than in the past. It's a mixture of excitement and anxiety. And just plain, "But I wanna!" I realize that I didn't actually blog abou ...
All day I've been on tenterhooks. The last week has had an element of the surreal. The last month even more so. Today the winners and finalists for the Young Adult Romance Writers of America's 2017 Rosemary contest were announced. My manuscript, IN ...
This is the second major good news of the last couple of weeks. I actually learned about it around the same time I got into #QueryKombat (Round 2 Entry), but didn't want to say anything until finalists were announced. The Rosemary is an award given ...
I was selected for QueryKombat! QK is a contest where queries and novel excerpts are pitted against each other, bracket-style, until the strongest query is reached. I'm on Laura Heffernan's team, competing with the query for IN HER OWN SKIN, my YA ...
Hello, world. I'm still here. 2016 has been a really, really tough year for me. It's been downright wretched for the world at large. I'm not sad to see it go. The Move is still in progress. We've bought a house that we move into in February, and li ...
Today is my last day at The Day Job. My coworkers are taking me to lunch--I chose the local BBQ joint, as American barbeque is not something I'll get a lot of overseas. (It'll be damn good South African braai, excellent but not the same.) My desk wa ...
I've never had any of the 'classic' dreams that people like to talk about--teeth falling out, flying, naked in a classroom. (All of that at once? Eesh.) I don't know why, I just haven't. In most of the dreams I remember I'm searching for something ve ...
This is not so much an informational post, because I have little in the way of information. It's a venting post. Because my mother is sick. A few weeks ago she started feeling nauseas, every day. She got progressively weaker and then went to the doc ...
I love my writing group. I built my writing group, and was tremendously fortunate to have attracted an amazing crew of people. Maybe the best part is that they're not worried about the group itself even though I'm leaving. When I was an RA they talk ...
I'm a list maker. I love pulling order out of chaos. And I love my dear friend, Google, for providing me with starter lists. My mother is also a list maker and I got to crib off her lists for the Leaving part of this move. But my Google Fu is failin ...
I have a day planner, a physical one, quite a beautiful one, that I have not touched in months. It started well, with lots of good intentions. Then I reached a point where I was just lucky to make it through the day and maintaining the planner fell b ...
A Necessary (Writing) Retreat I have wonderful writing friends. A couple of weeks ago a bunch of us went back to a cabin on a lake for a writing retreat/vacation. It was marvelous. Taking some time out for you and your writing is one of the best g ...
Here's how my bio now begins: Bronwen Fleetwood was born in South Africa, raised in New Jersey, and is now returning to South Africa, making her some kind of doubling-back expat. A #rexpat? Something like that. Everything's finalizing now--the move ...
Hello mentors and aspiring mentees! I'm Bronwen, host of this-here blog. I write YA that typically falls in the realms of contemporary, fantasy or historical, nearly always centering around a strong female lead. I volunteer with my local writing com ...
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The #WIPjoy hashtag and prompts were started by writer Bethany Jennings. It made for a really nice little community of people encouraging one another. The writing community at large is very supportive, and #WIPjoy was all about the love. The feature ...
This past Sunday's question is an interesting one. We're often asked why we write, but rarely how we got to this point. So here's an overview of my steps along the way. I identify my earliest desires to write with the discovery of Tamora Pierce's IN ...
Hopefully you're reading this post in your inbox. If you are, that means I got my auto-emailer settings to work! Hooray! You're subscribed to get an email every time I update. (If you change your mind you can always unsubscribe at the bottom of this ...
A few weeks ago Ms. Lovett (@lovettromance) urged me and some of the others in our writing group to hop into a Twitter chat (#rwchat, more on that later). She's become very involved, not only in participating but in helping to organize and run these ...
