Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #26’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #26: “Liar, Liar”. Everybody lies. Evil characters and even good ones do it too. For us, it’s a fantastic source of conflict. So this week, consider deception. Your piece can be fiction or non-fiction based on observation or...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #25’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #26: “Fish out of Water”. Sometimes it’s easy to tell when someone is out of their element. It can be their clothing, their manner, what they’re carrying with them… so many things give them away. This week, observe (or... 
This post is part of the Writing Adventure Group topic: Crimes and Misdemeanours.
My hair is now eight inches longer than it was in the profile pictures I use online, and I recently decided I needed bangs.
“Why didn’t you just go to the hairdresser?” a Certain Highlander asked me while observing the results of my “learned-it-on-YouTube” self-trim. A man in a novel would have...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #24’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #25: “Crimes and Misdemeanours”. We all break rules from time to time (just look at past WAG posts to see evidence of that!) and our characters usually have to do that in order to experience change and growth and to add a little spice and... 
This week has been a tough one! I’ve been thinking about this week’s WAG topic: “The Unexpected” since Friday, and I’ve realised that very little surprises me these days. The topic was: “So observe (or imagine) someone who is experiencing something they didn’t see coming. It can be something big or small.”
Determined to observe surprise, I saw the raised...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #23’s participants! We had some really good ones last week!
WAG Topic #24: “Unexpected”. Surprise is the hardest thing to fake (in real life and in fiction), but something essential to a well-written story. So observe (or imagine) someone who is experiencing something they didn’t see coming.... 
[This is for the Writing Adventure Group topic "Ripples".]
His words were barbed wire, shot out of his mouth at terrifying speed, aimed where I was softest.
I saw his profile on Facebook the other day. I’m not sure why I looked. Perverse curiousity? I don’t love him anymore. I don’t think about him unless something reminds me. But still I looked. I found his dad’s name first, then...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. Newly updated Group Guide here. And don’t forget to take a peek at last week’s fantastic participants!
WAG Topic #23: “Ripple”. When our characters walk their worlds, the world reacts. So for this week, look only at reactions. Observe a person and describe the reaction of the world to them. What can you tell about them based... 
WAG #22: “A Real Hero”. Observe a stranger you think would make a good main character, and describe their physical features as accurately as you can (and without cliche) so we can see them as real individuals and not cardboard cut-outs.
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I decided to go to hotornot.com (one of these public picture rating/dating sites) and pick the first random guy that came up and describe him for this...
Last week we had a great turnout for WAG #21. I hope you’ll take a moment to go read and comment on the posts. I love seeing how everyone interprets the topic. We are a bunch of theme-bending rule-breakers (As I said to my new friend Ms Onion just yesterday on Twitter)! I love it.
WAG #22: “A Real Hero”. In fiction, often every hero looks like the other, with broad shoulders and a... 
I'm a lot of other things, but mostly I'm a writer. I like books with fast action, scary killers, fantasy worlds, and smutty sex. Maybe even all four at once. My novel Ordinary Angels debuts from Lyrical Press in April 2011. To read about my other projects, click the My Fiction page. To get in touch with me, click Contact India and send me an email.
