At every convention I’ve attended, there’s a table full of promotional items. These usually consist of postcards or bookmarks, but sometimes there are fliers or little gadgets intended to entice people into purchasing a product. Usually a book, in my experience. Everyone is clamoring for everyone else’s attention, and if you don’t have the weight [...]
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(…yes, I’m in the middle of it. Why do you ask?) Here’s the thing. First drafts are supposed to be awful. HTat’s what they are FOR. You simply give yourself the permission necessary to WRITE BADLY if you have to, for the purpose of getting the bones of the story down on the page. There will [...] Another November of writing has come and gone, and it’s been an interesting one for me. I’m pulled in more directions these days than I was in the past, and even the writing itself worked out differently than it ever has. For all of that, it’s been a good month. I’ve waited a lot of years [...] There is nothing intrinsically sacred about the act of writing. Yes, it’s a strong creative outlet. It’s a wonderful career for those of us lucky enough to be able to do it for a living. And it fuels one of my favorite hobbies, which happens to be kicking back in my hammock with a good [...] Well we writers are often asked were we get our ideas. So I thought I’d look around and see what caught my mind’s eye right now, and this just goes to show, EVERYthing is grist to the mill… *** If you’ve ever read an author’s blog for any length of time, or followed his or her Facebook feed, you will no doubt be familiar with the tradition of posting sporadic or daily word counts. It is, perhaps, the only metric that writers have available to measure our productivity. My favorite anecdote comes via Stephen King [...] In a recent BBC interview, Sir David Hare, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, and general curmudgeon, talked about writing –http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9568401.stm Brief and bitter-sweet in the clip, he talks about having to write, and writing being one of the most important things in life even as he acknowledges that he makes films not very many people see. Sometimes, the biggest obstacle to your writing is writing. Sounds counter-intuitive, I know. I mean, writing’s writing, right? (Right.) It doesn’t matter so much what you’re writing, as long as you’re putting words on page, because, hey, it’s all writing, and the act of writing is sacred and glorious and wonderful, and if you don’t believe [...] |
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