Sixteen stories edited, approved, and rough formatting done for the benefit anthology for the Tom Burnett Library! Yes, I’m a week late on getting it done, no excuses, but it’s over the fence to the people who are doing the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writing
Jamie Wilson is back with another in her series about tradpub and what they are doing and not doing… My first literary convention was in Evanston, Ind. A man I admired (and would one day marry) convinced me to come … Continue reading
Whew… What a couple of weeks… I made a promise to myself that I would ‘give back’ to the writer’s community by reading folks novels/stories as an alpha or beta reader. And I do that… But, I didn’t expect to … Continue reading
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
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