My approach to revision hasn’t changed much over the years. I know there are writers who do it as they go along, but my method of attack has always been to plunge in and go as fast as I can, keeping the edge of my narrative blade as sharp as possible by constant use, and …
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘Round and ’round she goes, this Ouroboros of goals. This was a bad week for writing, overall. No excuses, I’m just really quite terrible at realizing the amount of time these tasks are going to take and end up wildly underestimating and suffering …
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit OH NO, WHAT DAY IS IT? List, fam, I’ve got goals and those goals do NOT afford a missed weekly article, so here we are. A day late, a buck short, …
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. Mark Twain I am my own worst enemy in many ways. Many, many ways. I guess I could put all of them on the list of things to cover, but for now I’m focusing on the one that matters specifically for …
Content killed art. It’sAGundam Hello again, Dwellers. Back in the saddle for getting things up to speed. Full disclosure, a broken A/C unit caused some havoc on the planned schedule for writing, but I suppose such is life. I’m not going to take that L to heart, L though it was. We take those and …
It may be that the DNA of fiction is, like our own DNA, a double helix, a two-stranded beast. One strand is born of what writers have experienced. The other is born of what writers wish to experience, of the impulse to write in order to know. – Mohsin Hamid “Write what you know.” Likely the most …
Scared. Yes. Of course you are, he thought. Only the ones just starting out – the kids – aren’t scared. The years go by and the words on the page don’t get any darker… but the white space sure does get whiter. Scared? You’d be crazier than you are if you weren’t. Stephen King, The …
When he began writing it was often like this – a dry and sterile exercise. No, it was worse than that. Starting off always felt a little obscene to him. Like French kissing a corpse. Stephen King, The Dark Half The muse has not been kind of late. Yes, I know, I don’t believe in …
Attention is currency these days, and a lot of motherf*****s are bankrupt. It’sAGundam Hey there, Dwellers. It’s me. One of those motherf*****s. In what I can only attribute to either a delicious piece of irony or a divine slap across the face, I was busy multitasking about five different activities with an It’sAGundam video on …
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sixty-Six goals in the month of October. At this moment, I’m sitting with fifty-three completed, which puts this month as my best completion percent since I started tracking. I like the sound of …
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