Happy 2015, people! I hope the year’s been going well for you so far. My first fifteen days have been acceptable; pretty full of editing and working–which, along with sleep, make up the three primary modes of my life. But before I go on here, I want to clarify the title of this post. So, … Continue reading Update: First “Update” for 2015 and Last “Update” for the Rest of Time
Here we are—the end of this series on the Traits of the Working Writer. And I’m glad; I’ve been getting way too metaphysical with these articles and I’m eager to get back to casual stuff; articles about Star Wars and video games. But there’s no reason I can’t be casual, direct, and practical about this … Continue reading The Traits of the Working Writer – Part 3: Understanding and Awareness
June has already been pretty interesting. It’s been rife with me hanging out and talking with other writers, which I suppose is normal for me now. As is my gleaning things from those conversations that I always want to bring back here. Things like that, hey, maybe my protagonist is emo (which, of course, led … Continue reading The Traits of the Working Writer – Part 1: Reverence and Respect
So it’s finally that time. Since my first post about Fiction Sins, I’ve wanted to dish on three more, but I didn’t want to force it and manufacture another set just to get pithy about them on here. So, instead of doing that, I’ve waited and watched and read and kept an eye opened for … Continue reading 3 More (Not as Great but Still Weirdly Common) Fiction Sins
Not to be a downer, but at the time of this posting, I still don’t feel it. It’s been a week now. A week since I finished my rewrite of my first novel. And somehow, I still don’t really feel it. There were moments when I almost did–moments when I wrote to a friend about … Continue reading Very Comfortably Insane
The weeks since my last post, “The Turning Point”, have been pretty hectic. Work is, naturally, depressing, and afterward home is—more so than before—a constant effort to get as much professional work done as humanly possible. Why “more so than before”? Because directly after “The Turning Point”, I rallied Chaos Mechanica to start on that new … Continue reading Infinite Ammo
I’m embarrassed to tell you exactly what hooked me into writing fantasy. Embarrassed because, in retrospect, it’s shameful. Most writers will tell you immediately that they were turned by Tolkien, or someone very similar. While I feel such a start has it’s disadvantages, it’s definitely based in literature. And that’s good. Because I got my … Continue reading Where to Start?
House of Error 