It’s not a good idea to wait on inspiration, but when it strikes, you grab that shit and hold on. It can be a winning lottery ticket, and if you tell it to wait until later, you might never get to scratch off those numbers and hit the big score. /simile I was leaving work…
As time goes on, I find there’s a topic from my old (decommissioned) live journal that I wish people might have read. So I post it here as a “redux”, meaning I haven’t changed anything, so some of it may be out of date. Still, the heart of the post is worthwhile, so I post…
I am not in between drafts, but I’ve already started to see the critical weaknesses in the draft I’m writing. Perhaps the most challenging thing for a pantser is that so much of the first draft is spent getting to know your characters and your setting. Sometimes you know them right away. Sometimes it takes…
So do you remember back on April 3rd, when I was complaining about how I hadn’t been writing that much? Well, I hadn’t, and it was frustrating. Work was sucking the creativity out of my brain. I worked late. I worked more when I got home. I worked on weekends. That’s how publishing goes. Like…
I have a blog? Oh that’s right, I do! And here I am posting to it. Let me tell you, it’s a sign of how much I love you that I’m spending my precious few minutes of free time to say hello. Hello! All my December titles have already turned over. What’s that? It’s April?…
So Kristin Nelson had a very important lesson on her blog today. A lot of famous authors have had to learn that lesson as well. Brandon Sanderson and his agent Jashua Blimes have commented on the drawer full of novels he had written and were not good enough for Elantris, his first published novel. And…
My attempt to blog more has been foiled by the arrival of the busy time of year. I know that seems obvious, given I’ve been busy, but that’s been busy with other people’s projects. Now I’m busy with my projects and other people’s projects at the same time. WOO HOO! Wait, no, that’s not woo…
I don’t have a lot of regular readers, but those of you that stop in, I really enjoy talking with you (both here and on Twitter). It’s been fun, and I look forward to more fun in the future. I hope you’ll be there for the ride. And for all you new people, hiya. Here’s…