Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: It’s been looking like Fall for a while now. Only yesterday was it beginning to smell like fall. You know, that leafy smell. It’s not unpleasant, but it does herald the onset of late …
Three weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to explore various bits of well-known writing advice and try and articulate what each one means to me. I’ll note now, and I should have noted this in the beginning that nothing in here is anything that I’d call a “Rule.” If you find that this works …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: It’s easy to lose focus under the guise of Multitasking. Thing #2: Now, more than ever, take some time to unplug and step away from it for a little while. Thing #3: There are …
Two weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to explore various bits of well-known writing advice and try and articulate what each one means to me. I’ll note now, and I should have noted this in the beginning that nothing in here is anything that I’d call a “Rule.” If you find that this works …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: If I was going to rank the bands who had a formative effect on my musical tastes as I was growing up, Van Halen would be among them. Rest in Peace, Eddie – and …
I decided to take a look at bits of writing advice and examine what they mean to me as a writer. Rather than jump off with the usual “Write what you know” stuff – though I’ll get to that later – I started with: “Write without Fear. Edit without Mercy.” I tackled the first part …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Fall turned on this year like Mother Nature flipped a switch. I’m digging it. Trees turning color, warm-ish days, and cool nights. Thing #2: The latest edition of my Newsletter went live today. If …
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 …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Being ahead of schedule is awesome. I wonder how long I can keep it up. Thing #2: The Next installment of my Monthly Newsletter is going to go live in just 7 days. If …
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 …