Write Without Fear

It sometimes takes a while for the topic of these posts to come to mind. This one had come from a seed of an idea that I had earlier in the week. The seed wasn’t quite what I was looking for – although I didn’t know it at the time. Back on Tuesday, I was …

Backstory

Every character has a past. When you set out to tell a story, you’re starting at a particular moment in your character’s lives, but what about everything that went on before? It’s been said that the sum total of our pasts comes together to make us who we are today and the same thing goes …

Find What Colors

I did a lot of work yesterday. Purely physical stuff, cleaning out stalls, mowing, etc. and this morning I’m still coasting on the mental high. During the later part of last evening, I started to examine why it was I felt so good about doing all that work. I’ll get to that in a moment, …

Multi-Tasking

I’ve never done this before, but this year has been full of all kinds of firsts, so why not try something new, right? For the first time, I’m working on two projects at the same time. For those of you who know me, this is going to come as a bit of a surprise. For …

Research

One of the great joys of writing is doing research on a project. If you spend any time at all around writers, eventually you’ll hear the topic of conversation swing briefly to research. Most of the time this comes in the form of strange subjects or how someone’s search history has probably landed them on …