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Sweet Dreams
My subconscious and I have never really gotten along. There’s a vicious little bastard running things down there in the darkness and apparently he doesn’t like me much. Night after night, he puts...
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Little Green Book
For the first time in a long while, I’m keeping a little notebook to keep stray ideas. In fact, this blog entry started out in the little green book. I’ve never been one to keep a journal. It’s too...
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Portrait of a Writer’s Block
It is not without trepidition that I start this post. Not because I’m concerned that I’ll reveal some deep dark secret, one that will shock the world and cause my friends to abandon me in droves. Nor...
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The Crutch of the Matter
Since I’ve started working on my series of short stories, writing has become much easier for me. Not necessarily blog entries, since that’s a whole other process, but I’ve now written four or five...
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Necessary Excess
Stephen King recommended that after writing the first draft of your story, you should then cut out at least 10% during the initial editing process. This is to deal with the word bloat issues that most...
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Suspension of DisBelief
Lately, I’ve become more and more obsessed with the idea of bringing my stories into the real world. By that, I mean to blend reality and fiction. I want to smudge the boundaries between my fiction and...
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The Process
In order to get myself hyped about writing reviews again, I’m going to let ya’ll in on a behind-the-scenes look at the process I use when writing reviews. It’s also a good way to get two blog entries...
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A Break from the Fear
I’ve been staring at this story for about twenty minutes now and so far I have nothing. I know exactly where this story is going to go. I know what’s supposed to happen and when things are going to...
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NANOWRIMO
This year I’ve decided to write a novel for NANOWRIMO. I’m so out of touch with writing fiction that I figured the best way to get back into shape is to try and write 50,000 words in less than a month....
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Writer’s Commiseration
Writing has never been a group thing to me. I don’t track down other writers to talk to them about the process. I don’t go to forums and chat about plotting and character development. I don’t hang out...
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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...
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Tales of the Whispering Mad and the Mis-Dead: Now in Paperback!
You may remember that I have a book, which is available on the Kindle. Now, everytime I tell people that I have a book and it’s only on the Kindle, they tell me, “But I don’t have a Kindle.” To which I...
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A Little of This, a Little of That
A lot of the books I read end up adding to what I write. Characters, words, worlds, even just that mix of tones (a little darkness, a dash of magic and a small smidge of humor); it all affects how I...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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