A Return

For a long time, writing had become less than a chore to me. A chore at least has a purpose, an end goal. If I'm taking on the chore of doing dishes, by Christ, there will be some clean dishes at the end of the day. Writing wasn't even that to me. The odds that … Continue reading A Return →

It Is The End, My Friends

Hello, I've reached the end of my blogging for 30 days spectacular. I'm pretty happy about that. I found out that it's really hard to think of thirty interesting blog entries sequentially. But it has kickstarted my interest in writing and has gotten some gears turning again that I thought would be forever rusted up. … Continue reading It Is The End, My Friends →

Write It Out

Hello, I'm not a plotter. I don't like planning out my stories at all. It robs me of the thrill of discovery. I sometimes start a story having no idea where it's going to go, but that's what makes writing exciting to me. I can go on the same journey as someone reading the story … Continue reading Write It Out →

Writing Update

Hello, I'm nearing the end of my experiment to write in this blog every day and I'm looking forward to that last day. There's only so much I can say, day in and day out and I'm sure there are days when y'all could tell I was checked out, especially on those 11:00pm postings. But … Continue reading Writing Update →

An Update

Hello, It's been seventeen days since I start to write continuously, both in this blog and off the blog and I don't know how this is impacting me at this point. On the one hand, I've written more in this short two weeks than I did in the last six months prior to starting this … Continue reading An Update →

Public Writer

Hello, I've never been someone who likes to write in public. The thought of setting up my laptop in the local coffee shop, which will most likely be a Starbucks, and proceeding to tap away makes me cringe inwardly. But that's what I'm doing this morning. I have time to spare this morning, time to … Continue reading Public Writer →

Ideas

Hello Again, I've never been someone that believes in writer's block. There's always something you can be working on, always something you can be making. Granted, I say that as someone that has never needed to survive by writing on a deadline. I can always flit back and forth from one story to another and … Continue reading Ideas →

An Update

Hello Again, Whenever I do one of these insane writing challenges, I feel the need to beat myself up about not meeting the self imposed rules that are, often, brutally unfair. That being said, I am going to say that as a result of this challenge (one blog entry, one five hundred word story per … Continue reading An Update →

Entry X

So! For the second time this year, I've forced myself to write ten entries in a single day. I'd feel bad about making this last entry a cop-out, wrap-up entry, but I don't. So there. In the future, I'd like to avoid this little bit of tom foolery. Shouldn't be too hard. All I have … Continue reading Entry X →

Paring It Down

For most people, editing is about excising. You trim out all of those unnecessary words and details and phrases and commas. You said too much. You described too much. You gave him too much to say. Stephen King even comes up with a basic formula for editing your story that goes as follows: First Draft … Continue reading Paring It Down →