Faster Than Light

Once more we’re flying fast as light. Dark Matter passing in the night…-Unleash the Archers “Faster than light” Faster than light travel has been a staple of Science Fiction for a long time. And for good reason. As an idea, the concept of Faster than Light (FTL) travel is pretty awesome. It can be dramatic. …

Four Days In

I have a confession to make. I have not been writing very much this past month or so. Sure I’d get some work done, but it was difficult. Even as I approached a cool scene that I was *Really* looking forward to, when the time came, I just…couldn’t. And I felt bad about that. Spoiler …

Write What you Know.

About a month 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 …

Write Every Day

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 …

Show, Don’t Tell

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 …

Edit Without Mercy

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 …

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 …

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 …

Conflicting Priorities

Today, I’d like to talk about Blogging and Writing. More specifically, Blogging while Writing. Blogging instead of Writing. It’s becoming more and more necessary for you – a Creative… (Sidebar: I think this applies to any creative endeavor, but since this is focused on Writing, I’ll stick with that) – to have some kind of …