Pssst…me again. Thought I’d check in on you. See what kind of problems you got today. No problems? That’s a problem. You’re an adventurer, a thinker, a romantic, a thrillseeker — something in a Walter Mitty fantasy that needs an adrenaline feed. You need a problem. Well…to be precise, you need a problem and a [...]
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I like to write about places I’ve never been to. It’s liberating, and it’s an experience that I recommend to other writers. But wait a minute, you ask. Don’t you have to visit places you write about? Don’t you have to step on another country’s soil, smell the air, mingle with the inhabitants and interact with [...] Now and then I sit back and contemplate the difference between myself and a few of the other writers I know. More often, I sit back and consider the differences between successful writers and those who haven’t yet reached published status. I need to clarify something here. When I say “published,” what I mean is [...] Let me list for you some of my responsibilities. I have a full-time job with a utility company, and while that job is staying, the location is moving… and me with it. Starting in a month, I can expect an additional sixty minutes added to my daily commute (thirty minutes each way.) I am planning to be [...] I’ve always been interested in dreams and what they may – or may not mean. (As Freud was fond of saying, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”) It seems that the busier my daily life has gotten, the busier my “night life” has become. My dreams would be wonderful fodder for my books if [...] Last month I sang the praises of turning tail and running the other way the moment the going gets tough. Okay, not exactly. Oversimplification. More like the praises of putting a troublesome project on hold while you wander off for an indeterminate period, doing other things, new things, shiny things, so you can later return to [...] In January, I’ll be back to trying to think of my own content again, but here’s December’s Q&A: Q: How about the writing lessons you’ve learned along the way? Anything from outlining to editing your own work. Try to write every day. Take notes. No matter how certain you are that you could never possibly forget the incredibly [...] So I know the last time I blogged here, I proudly proclaimed I had no fear. Well. That was specific to the new publishing wilderness. A nasty farmer inside me plants festering seeds that grow with my insecurities to fertilize. What if this story sucks? What if [...] The holidays are coming. We’re arriving at an intersection of worlds – the real and the imagined, outer and inner, concrete and symbolic, the past and the now. What must be done, what needs to be done. Kids dressed up as monsters expect candy offerings. Blood-bonded friends and enemies gather for the ritual slaughter [...] Secret agent man, secret agent man, They’ve given you a number and taken away your name. Show of hands: how many of you are happy with your literary agent? My guess is that probably fewer than half of you are raising your hands. In my writing life I have had three agents. When I was with agent [...] |
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