I have to admit the ugly truth: I’m an aspiring writer. This is my blog. Which means that I’ll tend to post about writing.
I know. Writers talking about writing can be rather dull for the non-writer. But then, it’s not like I have a lot of readers to begin with — 0.5, the last time [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Writing category.
Do I Write Short Or Long? And Why?
Need to Outline
This outlining as I go isn’t working.
For one reason, I find myself filled with doubt each time I sit down to write. I’m constantly wondering if what I’m writing is going to work for the story or not, and getting started on a chapter is just grueling.
Now, I don’t mind discovery writing. But I like [...]
I Am Not a Fantasy Writer Yet
The guys who do the Writing Excuses podcast just released a fantastic epidose.
Howard Tayler, the creator of Schlock Mercenary, talks about how he has recently discovered that he’s writing satire. But what’s most important on this episode is when the guys start talking about how examining your writing too soon can actually do more harm [...]
May Writing Goal
If I had to give one reason for my success at writing this year, I’d say that having concrete goals that I wrote down has made difference.
I have a few ideas of why writing down my goals is so important . . . but right now I’m too tired to even attempt to think about [...]
31,000 Words
I passed the 30K-word mark for my second practice novel, which I’m tentatively calling The Ruins of Malzirun.
So far, I’m pleased that I’ve made it this far into a second novel. I have a history of not finishing things, and one of the reasons I’m forcing myself to write four or five practice novels is [...]
5 Things I’ve Learned about Writing From The Eye of the World
As a writer, what have I learned so far from Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World?
There’s no way I could list everything I’ve learned, much less write something about each. So I’ll limit myself to five.
First, good writing can carry the day. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that Jordan is [...]
700 More Words
If I can write 700 more words today, I’ll cross the 25,000-word mark of my most recent, still untitled, novel. Maybe I can squeeze in an extra hour of writing tonight.
On the other hand, I wrote a little more than 1,000 words this afternoon, and seeing that 1,000 words is more or less a creative [...]
9,300 Pages
That’s the total number of pages in the first eleven volumes of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, counting along with them the very short prequel, New Spring.
I have no idea how long it’s going to take me to read through this series. On good days — by which I mean that I have not [...]
Diminishing Returns; or, the Evils of Writing too Much
Gluttony is one of my major vices.
If dinner consists of a food I like, I’ll keep eating it until I’m stuffed. And when I find a T.V. series I enjoy, I’ll watch episode after episode until I either finish the show or run out of episodes on DVD. The same is true of subjects I [...]
7 Tips to Help You Finish Your Novel
I started writing five years ago, a few months before I turned thirty, and I spent the last five years half-heartedly committed to the craft.
The result of those five years was pretty dismal: a pile of bad short stories, a handful of rejection letters that upset me more than they should have, and a half-dozen [...]
