The blog of fantasy fiction author and writer Tarah L. Wolff

I swore in my last post that the next post I wrote I would be proclaiming a finish of the final going-through and line-editing of Osondrous’ and Constance’s story of Embraced by Darkness. (Wow that was a mouthful.) I did it. I took the day off from everything else in my life (my wonderful boyfriend [...]

In writers groups across the country November has become synonomous with NANOWRIMO. That is (to those of you who don’t know): National Novel Writing Month. From the website you can get this description of what exactly it means to be a part of NANOWRIMO:
>>National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. [...]

Well, I got through it. Not with the ambition and excitement and startling hope I had at the end of Jezaline. But I’m satisfied. Osondrous and Constace’s stories ended smoothly enough to make me happy. That was something I was really worried about. If you read my last post you know that I was really [...]

Well, I did get through it. If you read my last post I had come to a bit of a halt when I reached Constance in the midst of Osondrous’ story. I got so comfortable working on one at a time. That was why I split my book up in the beginning. Each story of [...]

There will always be hard days. I went through the worst when I got through the re-write of my monster last time. But writing is work. Writing is practice. Writing is a talent. Writing is a desire. Writing is a process. All of those things mean to me tonight is that sometimes not all of [...]

I was in a conversation with a writer once and she casually asked how much a general website would cost. And I gave her the run down, setup fees, domain registration costs and design costs. I told her our bare fee would always be $135 per year to keep a website up, running and the [...]

I put in my last post that I didn’t know if I was going to go through Jezaline’s story one more time or just move on now that I had added and subtracted from her story to the point of near completion. Well, I went through it again. This wasn’t a “writers” decision. This was [...]

I started at 1:30 this afternoon and added ten thousand words by 6:30 this evening. I took a break for dinner. Started writing again at 9:00 and now I am writing this post to say I got through Jezaline’s story at 5:03 this morning.  That is twelve hours of writing; I’m numb from the chin [...]

I am the co-editor of the literary journal The Talking Stick. I have been the co-editor and sole layout designer (and cover designer) of this Minnesota book (published by the Jackpine Writers’ Bloc) for almost ten years now. My aunt Sharon Harris and I took over the Jackpine Writers’ Bloc and The Talking Stick seconds [...]

Right now I am working on Jezaline’s story. I am literary reading through and cutting, cutting, cutting and adding, adding, adding as I go. To some extent I am doing this with the eye of an editor, on the other side the adding is with my entire heart as a writer. I have added now [...]