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...
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...
When I was at the TGIO* for my NaNoWriMo area last year, we were talking about keeping the writing going year round because a lot of my Wrimos have no problem writing 50,000 words every November but struggle to write anywhere near that the entire rest of the year...
Scratch and sniff opera: At "Love for Three Oranges" in 1998, patrons received a scratch and sniff card. During the production someone would hold up a number and audience members would scratch off the corresponding number on their card and be "rewarded" with a scent...
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I'm writing, I get a response best described as, "Haha, very funny. What are you really...
I have a confession and, to be frank, I'm a little ashamed to admit it. But If I'm going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it. To start...
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It's a spreadsheet in which I've listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I've only just started to jot down notes for. I've given myself space...
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