Happy Sunday, Everyone! This week I’d like to share a few of my tips and techniques for writing characters who aren’t you. Those characters who are outside of your experience. Who have a different skin color, a different religion, a different sexual orientation, or identify differently than you do. Before we get into the nuts …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! Hope you’re enjoying the weekend! I know I’ve talked about not limiting yourself, or setting parameters on your writing. By that I mean not putting constraints on yourself such as: “I can only write in the mornings – or at night.” “I can only write in this coffee shop – or in …
I mentioned before that,this year I was going to spend time looking for music and books that I wouldn’t normally have consumed prior to 2018. One of those finds is a band called Amaranthe. They’ve got a song out called “True.” It’s a pretty good song, and the message is pretty simple. “Chase your Dreams.” …
Happy Sunday, Everyone. I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. I wanted to take a bit of time this week to offer some encouragement. We’re all engaged in some kind of struggle, and I know that there can be days, weeks, and months where it seems like there’s nothing going on but the struggle. I know …
Welcome, Everyone to the second Friday Fess-Up for August. We Made it!! This has been a pretty long week. No, there’s nothing wrong with Time in my neck of the woods. … … Ok, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Time here. Though I don’t know how …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! It might be that you’ll remember that, a little while back, I was posting about putting what mattered first. Sleep was going to be my baseline, I was going to shape my schedule in order to get the important stuff done around the stuff that I couldn’t avoid. That night, I was …
Welcome, Everyone to the first Friday Fess-Up for August. We made it!! When I originally started this segment of the Blog, I wanted to craft a response to the posts that I’d been seeing where folk would post about their one-thousand, three thousand, and even four thousand word days. I had never seen posts where …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! It might be that you’ve been noticing a trend here on the blog around when these Sunday posts have been going up. Well, there’s a reason for that. It used to be that, every Sunday, I’d get up, do the breakfast thing, then sit down to type up the blog post. And …
Well here it is, 8:00 PM on a Sunday night, and I just know that there are a few of you out there asking: Hello? Where’s the Blogger? Well, let’s just say that …
Happy Friday, Everyone!! We Made it!!! I honestly shouldn’t feel like making it through to the end of the work week was a particular challenge…seeings as how this week was only three days long for me. But it was. Nothing like coming back from a mini-vacation to remind you why the hell you left in …