I don’t know what the deal is. I write (or maybe it’s better said “work on writing stuff”) every day, but I just can’t seem to get out of a slump. I constantly feel like I’m not seeing enough progress, and no matter what I’m working on, it seems like I want to be working […]
June/July Progress Report 2017
Man, it seems like just yesterday I was sitting at the dentist office talking about how great the weather was (this was during a period of something like 10 solid days of non-stop rain) and he said, “Yeah, a lot of people complain about it, but I just remind them of what comes next.” Well, […]
Make the Connection or Find a Rejection
There are plenty of things in writing that don’t make sense. For example why is your favorite book not an international best seller? Or why is that book you just hate selling out in bookstores nationwide? Those are questions we might not be able to answer. For some reason, some books, TV shows, or movies, […]
Get to know your genre before it’s too late
I don’t often go outside the typical genres of fantasy, soft science, and horror, with a few notable exceptions for humor and my novel, which happened to be YA. But I decided to take my chances and try writing in a genre of which I know very little: crime. I guess I shouldn’t say I […]
Writing when your heart’s not in it
If you read this blog for any amount of time, you’ve no doubt noticed that I often struggle with the balance between writing, real life, and the job. Sometimes that even makes me cranky, stressed, or sad. 🙁 <- See the sad face to the left for graphical representation. This brings me to a night […]
Five Links Friday 6/23/17
It’s Friday! I’m back from a few days at the cabin with some nice memories and some not-so-nice sunburn. Here’s another edition of Five Links Friday for ya… 1. Let’s start with an interesting post by Noelle Sterne at Writer’s Digest with A Shocking (and Fun) Short Story Writing Technique. 2. For the new writers […]
The Reading Process I Use At My Ezine
This is part three of my impromptu series of posts about running an ezine. In the first part, I looked at what types of opening sentences I don’t like to see, and in part two I looked at the types of endings that are likely to result in a rejections. So here I would like […]
Five Type of Endings I Don’t Like to See
Since yesterday I talked about some of the ways I don’t like to see a story begin at Theme of Absence, I thought it would be a good idea to share what types of endings maybe lead to a rejection. A predictable (or cliche) twist ending I’ve written about these things before, but if you’re […]
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