Esmeralda Stone

  • The Sand Is Always…Greener?

    I’m seven chapters away from being done (hopefully) with the heavy editing of Lasting Remains. Yay! Then I’ll pass it off to my beta readers and see what they think. Which means I have to figure out what I’m going to write next. This wasn’t even a question until a few days ago. I knew…

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  • Happy Veterans Day!

    Before going to bed last night, I edited a scene from Lasting Remains that has this car (a 1966 Rambler American wagon—and those who know him are saying his name right now) in it, so I thought it only appropriate I used the picture for my Veterans Day post. I’ve been writing stories for as…

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  • Do You Want To Build A… Wait? What Did I Change It To?

    November 9th, and we have our first real snow on the property. We had some weird sleety stuff the other day that was more of a rain. But this morning, we have snow accumulating on the ground. Why is the picture weird? Well, I took it through the door of my office, so you can…

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  • When They Have Nothing To Do, Make Them Bake Cake!

    A discussion I recently had with a reader—okay, it was with my husband—was about why my characters do so much cooking and baking in my books. I have a few reasons for this. The main one being I’ve always enjoyed reading books that involve food. Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me and Agnes and the Hitman are…

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  • Killing Your Darlings And Their Cousin…

    A well-known piece of writing advice from Stephen King is ‘kill your darlings.’ What does this mean? It means after you’ve spent hours creating the most perfect scene (or paragraph) with witty dialogue, intriguing action, and immense tension, only to find out it does nothing to move the story forward—you kill it. Delete it. Erase…

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  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy November!

    I’m a sucker for writing humor. Not writing humor, although I don’t mind that, but humor that has something to do with writing. See Exhibit A above. I don’t remember where I first saw it (probably Facebook) but I laughed my ass off. Every time I looked at it. I still love it. I will…

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  • Happy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween to all who celebrate! May your pumpkins stay lit, your candy bag stay full, and your pointy nose stay attached! See you in November! Esmeralda Stone

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  • The Art of Making Pie Crust…

    I made pie crust dough at six this morning. Not so I could make a pie that early, but because I like to refrigerate the dough for at least six hours before using it. It’s one of the things that makes it easier to roll out and handle. “How do you make your pie crust?”…

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  • Eeeek!! I Saw Something I Wish I could Unsee!

    I did it. I folded, and I looked, and I’m (a little) horrified. I’m of course talking about my word count for Lasting Remains. We traveled in August, and I compiled what I’d written of Lasting Remains into a Word doc and emailed it to myself. You know, just in case there was some weird…

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  • The Skeletons Are Running Scared…

    It was not a terribly productive weekend in regard to writing, and I try to remind myself that it’s fine when that happens. Even when it’s a long weekend. I get overly focused on making progress with a book, so much so that I lose sight of other things I want to do. Like putting…

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