As a writer, I love Twitter. It’s an incredible tool for connecting with other writers, promoting my own stuff, and just killing time when time needs killing. But it’s not all rainbows and roses. (Or scotch and cigars.) There are certain things writers do on Twitter that are guaranteed to not only result in an […]
Discouraged? Sort of, but it’s not a big deal.
I’ve been feeling a little bit discouraged about writing over the last month or so. It’s not so much the “woe is me, I haven’t had an acceptance in a while” type of discouragement, but the kind where I feel like I haven’t been putting in enough effort. Like I’m not working hard enough. Like […]
Five Links Friday 11/4/16
Holy Moly, it’s the first Friday of November. For you NaNoWriMo-ers out there, you can’t go to bed tonight unless your word count is 6,668. So if you don’t hit all of these links today, I’ll understand 🙂 But for the rest of you out here, it’s time again for Five Links Friday! 1. In […]
The Two “Non-fiction” Books that Kept Me Up at Night
With Halloween was just a couple of nights away and the real horror show taking place in the US on November 8 (har har), I thought it would be fun to talk a little more on my favorite genre. As I’ve probably repeated over and over, I love horror more than most things. I love […]
The Brainstorming Rat Race and Ideas that Go Nowhere
More often than I’d like to admit, there have been plenty of nights where I looked through my works in process and just said, “Eh, let’s start something new.” Sadly, especially half a decade ago when I first started writing (geesh, I’m getting old), this would end up morphing into an entire night wasted in […]
October Progress Report and November Goals (2016)
Happy Halloween! And happy final day of October. I’ll say this has been a pretty good month. (Ignoring the ongoing thing about my house caving in upon itself.) In the world of non-writing stuff, we took the kids to a bunch of Halloween things and they’re totally ready to fill up those bags of candy […]
Five Links Friday Halloween Edition (2016)
It’s the final weekend of October (big sad face) and with Halloween taking place on a Monday (double big sad face) it’s technically Halloween weekend. So while we can’t change the fact that we won’t have a weekend night Halloween until the year 2020, we can still take advantage of the season and practice our […]
Podcast Episode 22 – Writing Goals Without a Daily Word Count
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at daily, weekly, and month goals that do not involve a daily word count goal. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, Nebraska […]
Writing Resources: Scrivener
Regular readers of this site may know that I’ve been going back and forth between writing a new novel and working on (extremely painful) revisions of another. Part of the problem with the revisions is that I started the novel with very little sense of direction, so a lot of the characters still run together, […]
The Best Advice I’ve Received from Rejection Letters
I like to think of writing as the business of collecting No’s. You can’t be a writer unless you’re willing to be told “No” every now and then. And by “every now and then,” I mean repeatedly–day in and day out. Since I first started writing short stories, I’ve received 173 rejections and 19 non-responses. […]
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