by Cindy Ervin Huff | Dec 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve been finishing rewrites to my manuscript per my editor’s suggestion. Over the years since the first draft, I’ve had to learn to kill my lovelies. Scenes written from the POV of secondary characters. Scenes evolving around secondary characters and lots and lots of...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorized, writer's tip, Writing Reflections
Things can get pretty discouraging as a writer. And when Thanksgiving rolls, especially for those of you doing NaNoWriMo, it can feel pretty thankless. Lots of hours of writing may not bring about the financial reward we hoped. The deer in the headlight look we get...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized, Writing craft, Writing Reflections
Recently, I was watching NCIS. And within the first five minutes I pointed at a character and said “He did it.” If you watch TV dramas the villain is usually easy to detect. Unless the producers takes one of its beloved characters and turns them evil. I love it when...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Oct 14, 2015 | Writing craft
It never stops, never stops, never stops…. Can you relate? When I’m not actually sitting at my PC composing pros, my mind is racing from idea to idea. When I’m taking notes in church during the sermon, my mind starts forming a devotional or a what-if scenario. In the...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Writers are artist in every sense of the word. They create worlds on paper that inspire and comfort. They see things below the surface. I found this quote inspiring. “I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the...