Is both a writer’s lifeline, and the bane of their existence… Research takes time away from actual productivity, but it’s also necessary if you want readers to actually read your books. Nothing is worse that errors that cause a reader … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writing
More from The Grey Man- Vignettes This is the last segment. I was still playing with how much detail was needed, and how much was ‘enough’ to set the scenes. One of the 1 star reviews on the book was that … Continue reading
More from The Grey Man- Vignettes In this chapter, I continued the character ‘development’ as as Dot said on the last post, ‘foreshadowed’ the Aaron and Jesse relationship. The other thing I did with this one was play with how … Continue reading
Yesterday, I posted the last of four chapters that ‘set up’ a challenge coin showdown for John Cronin in the first Grey Man, Vignettes. I wrote the novel because I hated perfect characters that never made a mistake, and always … Continue reading
Kevin handed out an assignment as part of his class, 1000 words with the following cue- Looking at Paris in this light. I wasn’t sure what to do with that cue, and kicked a couple of different ideas around before … Continue reading
You are either bored, or need a laugh… I was the guest this week on Writer Dojo. HERE is the link to their site, with the options to listen to the podcast. We talked primarily about writing, education of writers, … Continue reading
This is ‘my’ approach to writing short stories, take it for what it’s worth… e.g. $0… Seven little items I use… A character In context (e.g. what genre) With a problem Try/fail cycle by the character (fail) Try/fail cycle by … Continue reading
This came up yesterday at our work day at the Legion. Imagine if you will, a bunch of grumpy old men taking a break and sitting drinking Navy coffee… 🙂 Talking about the ‘old days’ before everything got transmitted via … Continue reading
My friend Stretch sent this as a response to my research post- Some additional search resources you can use to find things! www.refseek.com – Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines. www.worldcat.org – a search for the contents … Continue reading
Or how far down the rabbit hole do you go??? TL;DR everyone writes differently! Now that I’ve said that… I started writing because I hated the perfect characters and how often the weapons were misportrayed (e.g. WRONG). Now I have … Continue reading