Once again behind the 8-ball and in need of finding my groove, let me take you back a year to a post that you may find helpful. Courtesy Floating Robes “Apropos of nothing,” asks one person, “what’s the name of the mental disorder/condition where a person thinks his or her art/work is never good enough?”… Continue reading From the Vault: The Disorder of Art
Category: Writing
My Least Favorite Post
A bit about my schedule: most of the time I do my best to write these things well in advance, and set them up to publish in the morning, because that’s the best way to get some decent traffic during the day. There are times when that isn’t possible. Yesterday was particularly bad to the… Continue reading My Least Favorite Post
Writer Report: Winter's Here
We had our first snowfall here this past week. Temperatures have dropped and winds have picked up. Clearly, winter is on a little bit of a warpath this year. I’ve been trying to muster up similar motivation and dive further into Godslayer. It’s something of an experiment, I realized, as I looked over my outline… Continue reading Writer Report: Winter's Here
From the Vault: Turning Negatives into Positives
How’s NaNoWriMo going? Are you frustrated? Angry? Maybe feeling some despair? Read on. This might help. Nobody feels fantastic all the time, at least not without heavy drinking or severe medication. Creative people are, by and large, emotional and thus emotional blindsides getting hit can knock you right off of the rails you’d been riding… Continue reading From the Vault: Turning Negatives into Positives
Writer Report: Calling Test Readers!
I’ll keep this short and somewhat to the point – the draft of Cold Streets is ready for test readers! As I work on Godslayer, outlining and possibly doing a world/character bible, I’ll be interested to hear what people have to say about my next novella. I want to hit as broad an audience as… Continue reading Writer Report: Calling Test Readers!
From the Vault: Show (Don't Tell) Your Work
This is a rough time of year for me. Doubly so this year. In lieu of the usual writerly advice, here’s a tidbit plucked from a NaNoWriMo of yesteryear. Please to enjoy. Staring the month with a little advice. So NaNoWriMo is beginning and a lot of you out there are taking freshly-sharpened pencils to… Continue reading From the Vault: Show (Don't Tell) Your Work
Writer Report: NaNoWriNO
Don’t get me wrong. I know a lot of people out there are getting right into NaNoWriMo as I write this. I support the endeavor 100%, and I think it’s a great idea. 1000 words a day for 30 days is a daunting prospect, but it can be done. Arguably, it should be done, because… Continue reading Writer Report: NaNoWriNO
The Creeps
Slasher movies and torture porn will always have their place at Halloween and in the hearts and minds of horror fans. For me, effective and lasting horror does not necessarily have anything to do with buckets of blood or how stomach-turning the visuals are. Sometimes, the most penetrating stories of terror have less to do… Continue reading The Creeps
What Characters Say
“Supernatural” has some great exchanges. There are many people who come to mind that prefer dialog in prose to description. Even peers of mine find it much easier to write dialog than long narrative passages. The difficulty in writing dialog well is twofold: Making conversations clear, and making them feel natural. Both of these challenges,… Continue reading What Characters Say
Writer Report: Long Hours, Long Days
It is my sincerest hope that this week was an aberration, and not the template for what’s to come between now and January (or even February depending on how busy things become). Weekend work combined with long days requiring intense focus have left me somewhat drained. I also hope I’m not sounding too much like… Continue reading Writer Report: Long Hours, Long Days
