My daughter is about a month shy of two and a half. She's been telling stories and making up songs since she learned to speak but it's reached a sort of apex recently. One of her favorite things to do is to pick up a random big book or page of a lot of text, such as...
Isn't it weird how much writing itself can get in the way of a career as a writer? I missed two weeks of blogging in there without even realizing it just because there was so much going on. Here's a quick recap of some of the biggest things that happened so far this...
All work and no play... barely matters when it's all on the computer anyway, right? From February 28th to the first week of May, my daughter was sick with only a few days of random wellness here and there to break up the endless monotony of cold after cold. She...
Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
I've been obsessing lately over the fact that it takes me too long to edit novels. The dumbest part of this is absolutely that I don't actually even know what "too long" means on any level or how my editing compares with this mythical measurement. I've never tracked...
Here's some exciting news I've been keeping under my proverbial hat. Daddy Issues, the play I wrote by hand in a fit of madness in the middle of the night several years ago, has steadily been building up steam since I released it in 2011. There were readings and some...
In an effort to be more transparent about exactly what I'm working on and how those word counts I share divide up, here's a recap of what's been going on since I last checked in: February was a mad dash to finish my total rewrite of Mistress Novel. I finished it with...
The most useful writing advice and I literally can't remember where I heard it. But the idea behind it is to leave it all on the table. To put all your best stuff into this book and don't save anything for mythical future books that may never exist. I took a break...
I took a break from rewriting my novel. I'd thought I had it after experimenting and started moving forward with my rewrite again. I actually got to that same third of the way point from the last draft and started to suspect that, though I'd made a bunch of changes,...
You need to rewrite your novel but you're at a loss of where to start. I've been there and I'm sharing what helped me to toss my original version and reinvent my book fresh. The Brute Force method didn't work. I needed to shake things up and that wasn't going to...
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