Sitemap - 2023 - Monalisa's Musings
Lessons from the Last Samurai Part 5
Lessons from The Last Samurai Part 4
Lessons from The Last Samurai Part 3
Lessons from The Last Samurai Part 2
Lessons from The Last Samurai Part 1
2023 Good intentions vs Accomplishments
Sci-fi covers and not getting too hung up on "Muh vision!"
Green bananas and Thanksgiving thankfulness
The lines, they blur. They blur so hard.
How do you know what to put in where and how to bring it all together?
Ravages of Honor: The Concept of Generations
The Handwavium in Ravages of Honor
Structure for Pantsers Sequence
Creating an eARC in under 10 minutes
Creating Ingram Spark dust jackets
How to write a Regency SciFi heroine
Space Regency, the newest genre you've never heard of
Why isn't Space Regency a thing?
Vellum assembly after Scrivener compile
Ravages of Honor: The Genetic Engineering
Ravages of Honor: The Nanotechnology
Selling books off your own website
Scrivener Tips and Tricks for compiling
The 4-act plot method (part 4)
The 4-act plot method (part 3)
The 4-act plot method (part 2)
The 4-act plot method (part 1)
The 3-act plot method (part 3)
The 3-act plot method (part 2)
The 3-act plot method (part 1)
The 7-point plot method (part 3)
The 7-point plot method (part 2)
The 7-point plot method (part 1)
The properly proportioned narrative
Getting unstuck and moving past writer's block
Avoiding writing cults and the slaughter of Voice
Project management for writers
Review: Threading the Needle by Monalisa Foster
More organizing tips for your manuscript
Using Revision Mode in Scrivener
Crafting villains and conflict
A character by any other name would be lame
Don't call them unforeseen consequences
Tips and Tricks for Self-Pub #2
Tips and Tricks for Self-Pub #1
Messaging in fiction--when it works and why it doesn't.
What Independence Day means to me
Endings--Resisting the temptation to skimp.
What your garbage says about your society
Use of narrative distance in Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
Fitness, productivity, and the writer
I had ChatGPT edit Daddy Heinlein
AI: Expectations (God-like powers) vs reality
Artificial stupidity and lies, my first ChatGPT interaction
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Newsletters and other taxes on creativity
Dress making as precedent for AI art
Making flesh and blood out of paper and cardboard part 1
Making flesh and blood out of paper and cardboard part 2
Making flesh and blood out of paper and cardboard part 3
A Writer’s Guide to Surviving Your Reviews Part 1
A Writer’s Guide to Surviving Your Reviews Part 2
A Writer’s Guide to Surviving Your Reviews Part 3
Newsletters and Marketing for the Fiction Writer
The Parable of the Drowning Man: Communist Version
Viewpoint and Narrative Distance
How not to write yourself in a corner
Viewpoint and Narrative Distance
Stop celebrating and rewarding mediocrity
Endings are what sell your next book
If your older self could give your younger self advice, what would it be?