Erin Halfelven

Taking Pains -2- Do you do an outline?

Yes. No. Maybe. Sometimes.

I almost never do an outline for anything shorter than 10,000 words because I can write the story faster than I can do a good outline.

And I frequently start even much longer works without a written outline. Currently, I am writing the serial Jane and I do not have an outline written down even though the story is already 32,000 words and is planned to be in excess of 40 or 50K. I have an outline in my head, but I don't have it written down.

Why not?

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Taking Pains -1- How 2 Rite Gud

On Wednesday evenings, I run a local authors group called Taking Pains. The title of the workshop refers to one necessity for anyone who wants to improve their writing: the willingness to listen to unpleasant things about your writing. I'm going to try to reflect what we do in that group in occasional blogs here.

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Ultragreen -8- Plan B

She had used something on George that she would not have been able to do before the green ray hit her.

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Ultragreen
8- Plan B
by Erin Halfelven

I Dream of Jonni -10- Do It

“Your disguise as a boy is lots better from in front than from behind,” he said with a grin..

I Dream of Jackie

 

I Dream of Jonni

Chapter 10 - Do It!

by Erin Halfelven

Love Less -12- Maddy Returns

“Don’t you look smart in your school uniform,” said Jessie after greeting Les.

Love Less
Love Less -12-
Maddy Returns

 
"What's wrong?" Dr. Owen asked.

Sick

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I'm sick. Tuesday I discovered a rash under my left arm. At the time, I was suffering from a muscle pull in the same region and felt more pain from that.

Thursday, it became obvious the rash was shingles. I've got meds now and the pain meds make me sleepy and at least two other dwarves.

Meanwhile, Piper and Amy are also sick. I think theirs are colds. Jamie is sick, too.

Forgive us if we are a little slow on updating this week.

Hugs (carefully),
Erin and the gang

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I Dream of Jonni -10- Do It! up early for Patrons

“I am all grown-up, now,” I said to tease him. I stood on tiptoe in my sensible, business heels...


I Dream of Jacquie
Preview for BigCloset Patrons on Patreon

Can a wish make Jonni magically older?

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Ultragreen -7- Cabin 23

The heck? she wondered. Do all girls have this problem?

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Ultragreen
7- Cabin 23B
by Erin Halfelven

Not Entirely Myself Today

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Not Entirely Myself Today

By Erin Halfelven

 
I hurried home that evening because I had finally done it. I had lost my mind.

And I'd definitely overspent my budget. Ever since skinsuits became more reality than fantasy, I wanted one. Never mind that the good ones, the ones that I wanted, cost more than a top-of-the-line luxury automobile, I wanted one.

Jane -3- Brothers - Exclusive on Patreon

Jane is the story of a boy who discovers he is really a girl.

Jane
 
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Audie had always been a boy. But one day, doctors tell him, he's a girl. Can Audrey Jane and her family deal with this new life?

Time to break the news to her macho brothers.

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Love Less -11- Egg-in-a-Window

No one dressed in such a definitively girly way could possibly be a boy, could they?

Love Less
Love Less -11-
Egg-in-a-Window

by Erin Halfelven

I Dream of Jonni -9- Let's Make a Deal - Preview on Patreon

“Wish for some money,” I urged him.

The book told us a lot about what could and couldn’t be done with my magic but mainly it repeated in several ways that I was stuck. I was going to be female and under my master’s orders for as long as seventy years or more.

I didn’t feel nearly as bad about this as I thought I should. The idea of serving Travis by granting his wishes, magical and otherwise, appealed to me on some level I didn’t understand.

Maybe I really had become dumber. Sigh.

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Love Less -10- Gatorade, Shower

No one dressed in such a definitively girly way could possibly be a boy, could they?

Love Less
Love Less -10-
Gatorade, Shower

by Erin Halfelven

Ultragreen -5- Now What?

Would she never grow up to be a man like her father?

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Ultragreen
5- Now What?
by Erin Halfelven

I Dream of Jonni -7- Anything You Want

I shivered again with pleasant terror.

Genie Lamp
I Dream of Jonni

Chapter 7 - Anything You Want

by Erin Halfelven

Ultragreen -4- No One Would Know

Wishing for a mirror sounded rather girly...

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Ultragreen
4- No One Would Know
by Erin Halfelven

I Dream of Jonni -6- Wish Me Luck

“Not until you’re eighteen,” Travis said, shaking his head.

Genie Lamp
I Dream of Jonni

Chapter 6 - Wish Me Luck

by Erin Halfelven

Love Less -8- Giggles

Would he get so used to dressing as a girl that he would not want to go back to being a boy?

Love Less
Love Less -8-
Giggles

by Erin Halfelven

Ultragreen -3- Weirder Than Usual

Being a girl is not a superpower...

Ultragreen
 
Ultragreen
3- Weirder Than Usual
by Erin Halfelven

Ultragreen -1- Push the Button, Sheldon

Exploring the abandoned lab of a mad scientist, what could possibly go wrong?

Ultragreen
Lab (from TV Tropes)
Ultragreen
-1- Push the Button, Sheldon
by Erin Halfelven

Ultragreen -4- No One Would Know


Ultragreen

The new girl, Shellie, tries to disguise herself as the old boy, Shel. Is it going to work?

Ultragreen -4- No One Would Know is available for everyone to read on Patreon now.

- Erin

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Love Less -6- Prayer

Les didn't know how to take compliments. He had a lot more experience at being insulted or ignored.

Love Less
Love Less -6-
Prayer

by Erin Halfelven

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