Write This Down

It has been two years now since I first experienced the symptoms that would later be diagnosed as a brain tumor.   And while I wouldn’t ...

There’s something to be said for taking things slowly and completing a project at a reasonable pace.   I recently finished writing a nov...

I had told myself that I was running out of book ideas—which is why I inexplicably am 25,000 words into a new manuscript I just started th...

I will try to maintain this blog as long as there’s a thought in my head, but I have to be honest—writing is no longer the great creative o...

It has been approximately two years since I published my first novel.  I’m too lazy to look for specific dates, but it was June 2012 when I...

I would never presume to tell an author the right or wrong way to craft their work; I believe that whatever method works for you is the rig...

My last novel was written in twenty-one days, which may or may not be a statistic worth repeating.  With the current one, however—I am 23,0...

Call this particular blog a cautionary tale.   I completed a novel for NaNoWriMo back in November and it has been mentioned extensively ...

As I have stated in the past, I don't make New Year's Resolutions.  I also don't set overarching goals for myself.  I tend to fo...

In the past I have complained about being rejected from both jobs and publishers and receiving either a form letter response, or none at a...

Last night I blasted past 62,000 words, but I couldn’t tell you whether or not this is a good thing.   We tend to have a jaundiced eye tow...

As of this writing, I have completed more than 45,000 words of this novel.   My standard operating practice involves no going back and edi...

If writing is like exercise and a skill that must be practiced, then I allowed myself to atrophy and weaken in the two months while I took...

Lately I haven’t been writing, for a variety of reasons.   In the interim I have been pitching some of my work to agents and publishers an...

I started writing this blog as I went through the editing process of my first novel—and while I worked on the second one—but it has always...

In the course of editing, revising, and prepping Heart Trouble  for publication, I completed two additional novels.   I’m either an overac...

I think as a writer that you develop certain characteristics, traits, and a comfort zone—but at the same time, you strive to avoid repeati...

After a two-month hiatus from writing, where my primary task was editing Heart Trouble, I have ventured forth with another novel.   The idea...

I don’t consider this blog a travelogue, but I have written on several occasions about various sources I have utilized to inspire my ficti...

I live in an area with so-so internet service, and merely decent phone service.   Recently, however, my phone signal dropped out for weeks a...