Every year, NaNoWriMo comes and goes, and for the past several years I haven’t been able to make it work. Part of this is due to the ever-fluctuating changes in my freelancing schedule, part of it is due to the fact that I wasn’t ready to dive into plotting a novel for submission on spec, […]
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[Recommended] 23 Authors Share Tips for Writing a Book
An article written by Steve Silberman is making the rounds, and I thought I’d share this with you if you haven’t seen it. Dubbed “Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors,” the article shares a plethora of advice. I really liked Steve’s comment about dialing back Facebook and Twitter to focus on […]
[Video] So You Want to Write a Novel?
My friend James Lowder shared this on Facebook and I thought that you’d get a kick out of it. I’ve heard this song-and-dance before. I think about writing like I do cooking. Most people can cook, but that doesn’t mean they all work in five star restaurants.
The Trouble with Over-Editing
One of the things that has afflicted my fiction writing lately, is that I’ve been editing while I write. I have a series of urban fantasy novels I’m plotting out; the novel series is dubbed, “The Violet War.” The first book, entitled “Traitor’s Masque,” is about the events leading up to a full-scale war between […]