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Don’t Take My Word For it… No Really, Don’t
Back during the 2011 NaNoWriMo, Writer’s Digest was giving away several of their ebooks, including one called the Complete Novel Writing Handbook; a title I’d been wanting to pick up for years, that...
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Of Art and Money
When I first read this article on HuffPost books I confess my initial knee jerk reaction was to write a sort of counter piece, about how publishing is a business and self publishing is ultimately also...
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4 Years
This past Sunday the 15th, marked my four year anniversary with WordPress! I really can’t believe it’s been four years already! So… in honor of this milestone I’ve decided that it’s time for some much...
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Series of Possibilities (Repost)
In honor of my four year anniversary here on WordPress I’m featuring 10 of my favorite blog posts from the last year. Yesterday I announced on my Facebook that in the midst of working on my current...
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The Sound of Creativity (Repost)
Of the many tools I find particularly useful when creating a new novel, Scrivener, new notebooks and pens, occasionally a pencil or two and every so often Google Maps, one of the more underwritten...
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Why Do You Write? (Repost)
I’ve often been asked the question, what do you write, in fact it almost seems compulsory whenever you explain to someone that you are a writer (and I’ve said many times why this question always...
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Good Tension (Repost)
If there’s one thing reality television does well, it’s tension. This week, actually yesterday, one of my favorite reality shows RuPaul’s Drag Race crowned it’s sixth drag superstar, and while it...
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Artistic Burnout (Repost)
“I’m really kind of over it,” as soon as the words left my mouth, a small part of me wondered how horrible that would actually sound to anyone who was listening to the premier episode of our podcast....
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Smirk, Grin, or Smile (repost)
The English language is filled with multiple words that all mean about the same thing, but can’t quite be used interchangeably, and yet are used quite interchangeably nonetheless. Chief among these is...
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the Almost Epilogues (Repost)
Remember how a few weeks ago I wrote a blogpost about how I had come up with the outlines for 5 different novels, but I’ve kept them pretty hush hush? The reason for this is, that two of the novels,...
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The Book vs. The Film
Among the many many things I enjoy doing, novel writing, graphic design, blogging, I also enjoy scriptwriting. It’s an altogether different experience from writing a novel, and yet an adventure in...
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The Flexible Outline
Over the course of writing and rewriting my current work-in-progress, I’ve come to try something new for myself in the hopes of making life a little bit easier in the future. Early on in my editing I...
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Getting Into the Habit
For as long as I have been a writer, I don’t think I’ve ever consciously gotten into the habit of writing every single day. Even when I was blogging everyday, (which for myself, I don’t really consider...
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The Final Six
At long last, and after much rewriting I am finally down to the final six chapters and 35,502 words of my current work-in-progress. It’s been a long time coming, and thought I technically still have...
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Caution Slump Ahead!
Authors Note: I wrote this way back in July, but am only just now publishing it, I’m not sure why I didn’t publish this at the time, but suffice it to say I felt it was interesting enough for my...
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In Summary
The summary/back book blurb is perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of writing a novel, it is the point at which you must describe your entire novel using generally less than five hundred words. A...
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Writing like a Reader
There’s nothing better than when you’re writing or rewriting and a scene completely takes you by surprise. You almost feel like a reader in that moment, and you can’t help but wonder, where the hell is...
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NaNoPrepMo
It’s that time of year again, the weather is finally starting to cool (if you live anywhere but a desert), the leaves are starting to change colors, and Pumpkin spice is the flavor on every menu and...
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What Does Writing Mean to You?–Questions Week
One thing I’ve always loved about having a blog is being able to communicate with my readers. Before I was blogging (almost every day this month–with a few hiccups in between) it had been quite a while...
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First Writing Experience– Questions Week
Keeping with yesterday’s theme of open dialogues, I’ve decided this week will follow in the theme of questions about writing… today’s topic, when did you first start writing? I couldn’t really give you...
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