Category Archives: Writing

I’ve begun listening to “American Gods”, by Neil Gaiman. He recorded a foreward about how the book came to be, in which he dropped a couple gems about writing. He mentioned to his editor while he was writing the novel … Continue reading →

On the latest episode of Writing Excuses the gang challenged us to review what we learned or accomplished in 2014 and state what we are hoping to learn in the coming year. Since this smacks of “blog post”, I’ll actually … Continue reading →

I’m working on the pre-writing for my next novel. I don’t know what that means for other writers, but for me that means I’m trying to anticipate what I will need as background for my story. Though I hear all … Continue reading →

With the exception of troll commenters, it’s difficult to be harder on authors than the authors themselves (and even then it’s often a dead heat). We’re just too close to our work to be objective, especially while we’re writing it. … Continue reading →

It’s been said that falling off a cliff isn’t so bad, it’s that sudden stop at the end. A writer once described the process of writing a novel as jumping out of an airplane with a big ball of yarn … Continue reading →

…to make a woman fall in love with you. Okay, no. I’m not even sure how to do that in 20,000 or so, though I  believe that’s about what it took. No, I just finished my lunchtime writing session, and … Continue reading →

I’ve heard it said before that conceiving ideas for a novel is a matter of storing up ideas until you achieve a critical mass. Some of the ideas, no matter how disparate and unconnected they were initially, will suddenly start … Continue reading →

I’m still working my way through “The Wise Man’s Fear”, by Patrick Rothfuss, and probably will be for some time. I’m listening to it as an audiobook, and it’s a long one. And while audio isn’t always the best format … Continue reading →

My brother recently marked a full year of writing something every day. He decided that rather than complaining about not being a writer he would just dive in and write. The result? On a fan-fic site where he posts his work he … Continue reading →