Shayna Grissom Writes

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  • Optimistic horror?

    I think I took “Evil never dies” as a positive… Ladies and Gentleman, I am officially on submission. After about six months of edits with my agent and my editor bestie, Rebecca Partin, we’ve finally nailed down the version of The Cuckoo’s Nest that is going out to editors of publishing imprints. For most authors,… Read more

  • To indie or not to indie

    Some of you might know me in writing servers, I’m apart of several. I’m an embarrassingly high level in a few and something that comes up often is whether or not to try querying or “just go indie”. Rather than blow up the chat and increase my participation level and get tagged by that awful… Read more

  • I am the narwal; Goo goo g’joob (HIGMA)

    The stat nerds are gonna hate this… At some point, The Beatles got really weird. They went from “Can’t Buy Me Love” to “I am the Walrus”. There’s plenty of reasons for that. Fame, wealth, LSD… But there’s another reason, one that will meander into a point halfway though this post. I started writing fifteen… Read more

  • Inspiration

    It’s not where inspiration comes from, but rather when. I have four main folders on my desktop. “Working Drafts” and “Published” are fairly self-explanatory, the other two are easily understood if you’ve seen The Princess Bride. “The Dragon’s Hoard” is where my finished works go. Before my Self-Publishing era that file was beyond depressing to… Read more

  • Feedback: When to take it, and when to leave it

    I’m supposed to be on a writing hiatus, and I am, just not from writing on the blog. Feedback is what separates a writer from an author. You Need Feedback. Period. That being said, not all feedback is helpful or useful to you. Half the time it’s not useful at all. Sometimes critiques are not… Read more

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