I get some of my best ideas at night. I don’t mean while I’m dreaming, although that happens too; dream-ideas are usually so vivid and visceral that they stick in my mind and I’m able to call them up almost at will. Entire novel-length stories form around those ideas, which […]
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Well, this has been one heck of a week in writing. I started last sunday spending about eight hours glued to the keypad, with a couple of bathroom breaks and a meal somewhere in there. The next day, I kept going, and the day after that. The longest day I […]
Well, yesterday I went public. No, I don’t mean I formed an IPO, I mean I stood in public and sold myself as purveyor of words for the very first time. This weekend Whatcom Writers and Publishers and Chanticler Reviews hosted a local book faire, Books and Brews, at Boundary […]
This morning, due to various factors both in and out of my control, I sat down to write for the first time in several weeks. It was great to be back. I killed it. I busted out a scene in chapter 12 (yes, I’m still in dreaded chapter 12) that […]
This is a “having trouble getting started day,” so I thought I’d write a post on procrastination in order to procrastinate on what I should really be doing, which is working on Chapter 12 of Book II. I don’t often procrastinate, but when I do, it almost always sneaks up […]
I have always been notoriously bad at keeping any kind of regular log. When I look back over my diaries and journals, I find months and sometimes years between the entries. And here I am, running a blog. As you can see if you scroll down, it mirrors my journals, […]