Author in Progress: A Blog — Carolyn Tara O'Neil

Russian nicknames

This post has nothing to do with Rasputin. I just really wanted to use that gif.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraMay 17, 2018

Feeling good

Birds flying high, you know how I feel... about the new chapters I'm drafting for The Devil's Wall. <3

UncategorizedCarolynTaraApril 29, 2018

What was I so worried about?

A while back I wrote a pretty angsty post. I was sure that my novel was "structurally unsound."

UncategorizedCarolynTaraApril 22, 2018

Still Revising

In my last entry I was sure my revisions were nearly done. I am occasionally overconfident.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraApril 22, 2018

Speeding through Revisions

It's time to finish up.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraFebruary 16, 2018

First novel woes

There's a reason writers resist moving on from their first novel.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraFebruary 4, 2018

Back in the game!

Round and round the editing goes...where it'll stop, good lord it's anyone's guess!

UncategorizedCarolynTaraJanuary 28, 2018

Sometimes, when you immerse yourself in a particular time period or a group of real people, you invent things that turn out to be true.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraDecember 30, 2017

A list

For no other reason than because this cracks me up, here's a list.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraDecember 28, 2017

I did it!

I finished *Diagnosis*!

UncategorizedCarolynTaraDecember 7, 2017

#amwriting 2017 in review

My writing accomplishments this year!

UncategorizedCarolynTaraDecember 6, 2017

Character motivation!!

Yes, this deserves exclamation points! I finally wrote a character with agency.

UncategorizedCarolynTaraNovember 30, 2017