Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This week, I submitted my application for the Taos Toolbox writer’s workshop. I should hear back from them in a couple of months. If you’d cross what you’ve got for me, I’d take it …
I have a confession to make: Lately, I’ve been struggling with a couple of scenes, and it’s taken me longer than I would have liked to get through them. Further confession: I’m still not completely through one of them. The first scene took just over a week before I reached the point where I didn’t …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Keep doing what you’re doing. There will always be someone who has written more than you have on any given day. Someone who’s gotten up earlier. Someone who appears to have done more. Don’t …
There will come a time where you sit down to do “The Thing” and nothing comes. You may be experiencing something like that right now. Well, maybe not right, right now because you’re reading this, but you now what I mean. You’re all set to do what it is you do and…nothing doing. I’ve experienced …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: The full manuscript of Jade Moon Waning is in the hands of some agents. If you all would cross what you’ve got for me, I’d take it as a kindness.. Thing #2: Chapping through …
This year, I set off to try something new. Well, something new for me anyway. Here’s a picture to show the results of the first month: To clear things up, every day that I get some kind of writing – and by that, I am not including Blogging, Tweeting, etc. – done, that earns me …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This week is the First Week back from ConFusion. The Con was great, and I had a fantastic time. It was good to see old friends – some of whom I only see at …
Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Sunday: Laser Guns and Gravity Canons: War in Deep Space Sunday 1:00PM PetoskeyWe’ve come a long way from Flash Gordon’s pew-pew laser effects. From Ninefox Gambit’s eldritch special attacks to The Expanse’s inventive use of real-world physics, what does warfare look like in modern …
Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Saturday: Effective Training Sequences in Prose Fiction: Saturday 1:00PM InterlochenIn movies such as How To Train Your Dragon, the sequence in which our dashing hero bumbles through training and eventually triumphs usually has a stirring score and a lot of quick transitions to back …
Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Friday: Managing and Overcoming Professional Burnout: Friday 1:00PM CharlevoixThe Mayo Clinic defines burnout as “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.” It can affect people of all professions, but it presents …