As a writer – as a creative of any kind really, but I’m speaking from a writer’s perspective – there is a lot of pressure on you to produce. Some of it is external. I hear now-a-days that one book a year is starting to be not enough. In my opinion, that kind of pace …
So… Maybe this post should have gone live two days ago, but I don’t post on Fridays anymore. More importantly – and hear me out on this – maybe it’s appropriate regardless of what day it is. I think that personal relationships, including – and perhaps especially – romantic relationships are not only good for …
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 …
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 …
It’s been raining all day. And not just the cold misty stuff that’s common this time of year either. Outside it’s raining like it means it. So I’ve been stuck in the house and doing not much of anything this past weekend. And it’s bothering me. Maybe, like me, you’ve gotten so used to going, …
Welcome, Everyone, to the first Blog Post of the New Year! If you’ve followed me here from 2019, thanks for sticking with me, and, if you’re new to the Blog, Welcome aboard! This year while, empirically, no different than any other, feels particularly significant. For starters, 2020 is an election year. I don’t normally get …
Here we are at the final Blog post of 2019 and I’d like to take a moment to look back at the past year, focusing on some memorable moments. It’s been…Well, maybe it’s just me, but it seems like (for at least the last 4-5 years anyway) right about this time, I keep hearing people …
This year, I figured that I’d try my hand at one of the “Gifts-for-your-writer” posts. The idea hit me around July, and… Well, I won’t get into the details. Suffice it to say that the subject matter for this post is kinda on brand. Speaking of brands, I am not going to mention any names. …
For those of you that don’t know me, this time of year is one of two times during the year where I drift pretty heavily into an introspective mood – the other time is my Birthday (which is in July, so they’re nicely spaced apart). Here we are NaNoWriMo has passed, and the New Year …
I’d like to follow up a bit on one of the Things from last Thursday’s post: Don’t be afraid to ask for what you want. I don’t know about you, but for me, this is sometimes much more difficult than it sounds. It’s easy to self-reject. It’s easy to say to yourself, “They won’t want …