Last week, I sat in my tub Tornado Alley-style (because jackhammers outside my house) to talk with my first GrubStreet writing instructor, James Scott, all-around good guy and author of the [...]
It’s debut day! Marc Foster, my wonderful friend, Novel Incubator classmate — and incredible writer! — interviewed me for Dead Darlings. Originally posted at Dead Darlings. [...]
I didn’t want to write anything this week, including my Sunday status. But I had a blog post on the schedule, so I wrote about a favorite cousin who passed away recently. I write a lot of [...]
Highlights: The best writing I did during the writing retreat this weekend was a series of 20+ emails with my friend regarding an opening scene of her novel (we could have sat across from each [...]
Highlights The Novel Incubator Alumni Writing Retreat is imminent. Next weekend, 14 of us head to northern New Hampshire to shut out the world and write as much as possible in three days. [...]
Highlights Novel 2: still in progress. Still feeling good about it. My deadline for second draft completion is 12/31/15. That’s not a ton of time, but I work best under pressure. Deadlines [...]
Highlights I broke through the Novel 2 wall of despair that I recounted in my latest Dead Darlings post. I needed to go through my whinycrankybabybitchypants phase of the process. And I got a [...]
Another year, another revision. This time, I’m revising the second draft of a second novel. I began writing this draft one year ago. The fact that I’ve not only finished a draft but [...]
Once again, I have failed at the Sunday Status Updates. I have run out of excuses. But my girlfriend updated my website functionality and look and feel. I have renewed energy to update because my [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. Character profiles are great for first drafts. I fill out a ton of those for each character. I cast my characters with favorite TV and movie stars. I create [...]
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