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 →

Pain in the Word

There comes short and brutal little periods where I am incapable of writing anything. Words don't come, they stay locked away or they just never existed. This is a problematical thing when I've decided that I have to write every single day, whether I want to or not. So I have drag each word out … Continue reading Pain in the Word →

Write Frame of Mind

Apologies for the title for the entry Since I've started my month long writing project I've begun to look at everything as a potential blog topic. "Oh hey, tornadoes, that's interesting." "Man, these buses are always late. Into the blog." "Oh wow, I've never seen a paint chip like that one. BLOGGED." Ya'll are lucky that I've been blogging for … Continue reading Write Frame of Mind →

30 Days of Blog Entries

It's June 1st, which means that it's time for one blog entry a day for the entire month. I can't guarantee that these will be good blog entries. The quality will probably be uniformly awful, but since I've warned you ahead of time, I can't be held accountable. Hopefully this will make up for the … Continue reading 30 Days of Blog Entries →

Welcome

I've noticed recently that there are quite a few people coming here from places where my stories are posted, namely Ichor Falls and Tales of the Zombie War. As I've mentioned in an earlier post, I always feel a bit odd because I'm worried that folks come over to my blog expecting more horror and … Continue reading Welcome →

The Timeline

I was going through my old blog, which is shortly facing erasure, and it's a strange experience. I wrote there for almost seven years, which is a long span of time. I went through a couple of jobs, graduated from two schools, traveled around quite a bit. I went from wanting to be a paleontologist … Continue reading The Timeline →