As I’ve been studying recently, I’ve found a lot of ideas to think about and look for in my own stories, but I haven’t found anyone else’s method that I can duplicate. I find myself taking those alien methods apart and cobbling bits and pieces into my revision process, and that hopefully makes my finished stories better. Continue reading
The world seems to be in utter turmoil to many of us. The Russian invasion of Ukraine. The disaster in Afghanistan and the coddling of Iran’s zealots suggests terrorism on the rise. A doddering man who is incapable of leading the free world. Two years of stopping the spread. Lockdowns. Shut downs. Masks. Vaccines. Soaring … Continue reading
I’m a PANTSER, but I can still learn from PLOTTERS (there is a PANTSER/PLOTTER SPECTRUM, like with autism), and most of us slide between the two, depending on where we are in our personal method on a given project. So I attend summits when they seem interesting. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals: All my blog posts went out according to schedule. I had one submission return, and immediately sent it back out to market. I wrote on six days last week. I made my daily quota on only one of those days, and came up short again with only 1,192 words toward my weekly … Continue reading
I’m a PANTSER (a discovery writer for those of you who are uninitiated); the words pour out, and I make adjustments after the draft comes out. Despite the fact that most aptitude and personality tests (such as Strengthsfinder) say I’m highly analytical, I seem to have a block when it comes to applying analysis to my writing. I can FEEL whether something works, but it’s difficult (to say the least) to apply other people’s rules to my stories. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog posts made it out on schedule, and I didn’t have any stories return from market, so they’re all out there as they should be. My next scheduled release day is March 18th. The story will be “Getting Personal”, which I have barely started to prepare for publication. I still need … Continue reading
I’ve been reading and listening to writing lessons and advice for twenty years, and it is generally true that there is NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. You can, however, hear people with different perspectives who have found new ways of presenting those old things. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All my shopped stories were returned to markets as soon as they arrived home. I wrote on five days and made my daily quota on three of those. I failed to make my weekly quota, with only 2,350 words of fiction (applied against Swordsmaster #3.) Of … Continue reading
In my misspent youth, I did some acting. (Actually, I don’t know why I’m saying “misspent” – everything each of us does in life goes into making us who we are, so unless you’re doing something destructive, it’s not really misspent.) I was playing The Reindeer in the The Snow Queen, and I developed this … Continue reading
My memory has never been good. Well, maybe that’s not the right description. I could remember things fine, given enough time. When I was in grade school and junior high, we still had these things called film strips in classes. During some lessons, the teacher would bring in a film projector, darken the room and … Continue reading
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