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2 of 4
Over the weekend I managed to finish the second draft of my current work-in-progress. I came up a little under the word count I had originally intended, but ultimately the story ended exactly where it...
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Reading To Edit
In an effort to make sure I’m really doing this editing thing properly I’m doing something I can’t say that I’ve ever done before, and I have to say, it’s really really strange. For the first time in...
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When Is it Ever ‘Good Enough’?
I find myself wondering this question a lot these days. As authors we spend months, sometimes years working on a single project to make it… well if not perfect, at least good enough that we can say...
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Bad Author Behavior
I recently read an article in the Guardian regarding an author (who shall remain nameless) who I believe has exhibited the worst in what I call: Bad Author Behavior. As writers there are only a few...
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Third Draft Blues
Wednesday on my Facebook Page, I shared a brilliant blog post by Chuck Wendig, where he discussed how the second draft doesn’t get the attention it deserves. And more importantly, what you need to now...
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Looking to 2015
It’s hard to believe there are only really two months left in 2014. October is almost over, and Christmas will be here before we know it (actually according to my local Smith’s it may already be...
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the Great Slump
This time last year, I was deep in the trenches of editing the first draft of my still current work-in-progress. The first book in a series of five. I was mostly working on rewriting a large portion of...
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Post-a-Day 2012
As I gear up to begin blogging every day in the new year I decided to reflect on the lessons I leaned blogging every day back in 2012/2013. Words Matter One of the major differences between a blog and...
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Just the Beginning
There’s an adage that I see going around the internet amongst writers blogs that suggests, if you were to write one page a day for a year you would have 365 pages, or an entire book written in that...
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A Change of Mindset
When I was thirteen, I went for my first physical, I was always a bit of an overweight child, but the doctor was particularly concerned by my size. In a matter of hours I was checked for diabetes and...
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