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Make Art
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it, while they are deciding make even more art.” -Andy Warhol As writers we...
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Where to Begin?
Figuring out where and how to begin your story is perhaps one of the biggest challenges for authors, but also one of the most important. The first chapter should ideally introduce your characters,...
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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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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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Evolution of a Novel (repost)
One of the most exciting parts about letting my ideas sit and bake for a while is how much of an evolution they’ve made since their inception. In a post a few months ago I wrote about the evolution of...
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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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Not the End
There’s an unfortunate idea that has been around for decades now that somehow literature and books and the whole of art is somehow dying. The reality is… that’s just not true. Books are changing. The...
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Perfectionism
I’m a notorious perfectionist. I’ve written a number of times about the subject and the last ten years of my life have really been a case study in the high art of perfectionism and how crazy it can...
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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 Two
I may have missed my deadline by a few days, but as of this morning, I’m officially on my final two chapters, just ahead of October and my NaNo Prep Month. I figure I’ll probably be able to finish the...
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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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Sequel Prep
With the second draft of my current work-in-progress complete, I’ve had a lot of free time the last few days in between editing to work on the official outline for the sequel which I plan to start this...
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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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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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An Ode to Editing
There’s nothing like editing to make you wish you had never become a writer in the first place. I’m… mostly kidding there. I realize I rant about editing a lot on this blog and I would apologize but,...
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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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