Happy Sunday, Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend! There’s a bit of a story around this week’s title. For those of you that don’t know…I’ve got critters here at the house. Not in the house…well, there’s the dogs, but outside the house too. There’s goats, a few llamas (because we’ve also got Coyotes) chickens, …
Happy Sunday, Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying your weekend! This week I’d like to talk about how I almost decided not to include an argument in my current project. Why? Because I thought it would make the characters unlikable. That got me to thinking about two things: The first was that this is taking place …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. This week, I’m going to kick off the post with an announcement: Like I mentioned on the last Five Thing Thursday, I have officially added the band Unleash the Archers to my writing playlist. This is pretty significant. For those of you that don’t know, I’ve …
Happy Friday Everyone! Even though it was a short week, I didn’t think it would ever get here. We Made it!! So this month, I am making a serious push to get to the end of the First Draft of my Current Project. This meant doing math – that’s how serious I was. The end …
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 …
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 …