Michelle Proulx -- The Website

As someone who grew up with the Harry Potter books, I was understandably thrilled to hear about the new Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game. Since its release on April 25th, I’ve playe...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/05/01/harry-potter-hogwarts-mystery-year-1-review/

Draft #3 of Cerulean Bound is officially done and off to my editor and alpha reader! It took about three months to slog through all the revisions, and I only managed to cut 3k words — but in ...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/04/14/editing-and-cupcakes/

Happy April, everyone! It’s been pointed out to me by the lovely Celeste DeWolfe that I haven’t blogged since January. Whoops! My incredible bad. Here goes! Since my January post, I’ve been...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/04/04/cerulean-bound-update/

One of the plot holes I’ve been trying to solve in Cerulean Bound revolves around a scene near the start of the book, when Eris and Varrin go to a place that has security-bots with facial sca...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/01/24/inspiration-comes-from-the-weirdest-places/

I’ve officially received edits back from my editor and alpha reader on Draft #2 of Cerulean Bound, so it’s time to start sharing some of the more ridiculous “edits” they’ve done. In tod...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/01/22/editing-fun-1/

Phew! After noodling over the second draft for about three months, I finally got the darned thing done! I have my editor and alpha reader to thank for this: my editor, for reminding me that she h...

https://michelleproulx.com/2018/01/05/finished-cerulean-bound-draft-2/

Woohoo! I’ve fallen into a really productive schedule this holiday season, which is basically to wake up, eat breakfast, and then edit until my brother wakes up around 12 – 1 p.m. Then we go ...

https://michelleproulx.com/2017/12/22/20k-words-cut-from-cerulean-bound/

Editing on Cerulean Bound proceeds at … I want to say a “good clip,” but realistically it’s more a slow crawl. I had started November with the intention of getting the second draft done b...

https://michelleproulx.com/2017/12/15/10k-words-cut-from-cerulean-bound/

I am neck-deep in edits for Cerulean Bound, and have been searching for the appropriate background music to keep me in the zone. I was rocking “alpha wave music for studying” mixes for a wh...

https://michelleproulx.com/2017/12/07/music-for-editing-sci-fi/

Editing on Cerulean Bound has officially started! As I plow through 142k words, I’ve made a short list of things to keep in mind. You know, not anything overly specific (i.e. delete extraneou...

https://michelleproulx.com/2017/10/27/the-top-5-things-im-looking-out-for-whilst-editing/