Have a great and safe 4th of July, everybody!
Storytelling, NES-Style
You know what’s crazy? When I first started writing, the idea of plotting seemed foreign to me. I didn’t see any need to come with a defined problem-conflict-solution. I just thought that seemed archaic in a sense. And then when I heard about some of the more complicated plotting methods, such as the hero’s journey, […]
Writing a bedtime story with your 2-year-old
My little guy isn’t so little anymore, as he just turned six. It’s great to see him growing up and so much fun watching him learn and teach his younger siblings everything he knows about the world. But he wasn’t always a big brother. There was that small amount of time where it was just […]
Get to know your genre before it’s too late
I don’t often go outside the typical genres of fantasy, soft science, and horror, with a few notable exceptions for humor and my novel, which happened to be YA. But I decided to take my chances and try writing in a genre of which I know very little: crime. I guess I shouldn’t say I […]
Writing when your heart’s not in it
If you read this blog for any amount of time, you’ve no doubt noticed that I often struggle with the balance between writing, real life, and the job. Sometimes that even makes me cranky, stressed, or sad. 🙁 <- See the sad face to the left for graphical representation. This brings me to a night […]
The Reading Process I Use At My Ezine
This is part three of my impromptu series of posts about running an ezine. In the first part, I looked at what types of opening sentences I don’t like to see, and in part two I looked at the types of endings that are likely to result in a rejections. So here I would like […]
Three Writing Ideas I’ve Changed My Mind About
I’ve been writing for a while now, and while I still look back on those first couple of years where everything was fun, new, and exciting, I still had a few wrong ideas about the craft. And had I not corrected them, they may still be holding me back today. So with that said, here […]
Building a Story From the Bottom Up
So maybe I’m a terrible person, but in the distant past I used to kind of (silently) make fun of those writers who would talk about getting so hung up on world-building that they haven’t even begun their book yet. I was like, What the Hell? World-building? How boring is that? Just shut up and […]
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