I would seriously recommend giving this blog post a read, especially if your writing includes action sequences. The whole site is worth visiting, but this article struck a chord with me, probably because I’m in a more action oriented sequence of my […]
As my own impending walk into the realm of revision closes in upon me I have grwon increasingly nervous. It took me weeks to revise a ten-thousand word short story, how am I going to revise my one-hundred-thousand word novel? I found […]
As any of my long time readers can attest, my output as of late has increased substantially. Alone used to consist of one post a week, but lately it has climbed to the point of five or six a week. Part of […]
For the last month or so I have been editing and re-writing a story I had written last month. I wrote it with the intention of submitting it for publication. Tonight I finished my last re-write. I went to the publication’s website […]
This month has been a rough one writing wise. I am behind my goal curve and though I have time to make up the difference I have a hard time imagining my doing so. I think I’m a little burned out from […]
Last week I talked about how my writing had been rejuvenated and that I had made some changes in the way I approached my writing. That sense of progress and accomplishment is still with me though I think it has been tempered […]
The number of views on my blog is down from last month and way down from the month before. Last month it really bothered me, but this month I am completely ambivalent. So what has made the difference in my views and […]
“Yes. Some of the foundation laid so long ago must be checked and I trust no one but the two of us to do it and since its unlikely that you’ll be leaving your office any time soon…” Robert left the implication […]
So a couple of years ago I was reading a book about about being a better writer (I’ll hunt it down and let you know what it is later) and one of the chapters was about forcing yourself to write. Now I have been […]
So last year, when I still used Myspace, I had started retyping some of the short/flash fiction I had written back when I was 19-20. I would correct any grammar and punctuation issues then post them on my blog as an exquisite […]