Tag: writing life

  • Ghosts.

    I do believe in them. I understand if you don’t, I don’t think less of you for it. When my sister and I were kids, we lived in a nice […]

  • Author level up!

    I’m trying to, anyway. I keep hearing how the important thing in this authoring game is to just keep working on getting better and better, at whatever pace you can, […]

  • Why the hell am I crying?

    I burst into tears the other day at a friend’s funeral. This might not seem so odd. And indeed, I had been teary-eyed off and on through the service and […]

  • Damn, I’m good.

    So I’m working on a companion story for my faerie book. It’s the back story of the love interest, who’s half-faerie and half-human. He was raised in Faerie by his […]

  • The end.

    I just found out that my next-door neighbor is dying. She has cancer. It hasn’t responded to any of the chemo or radiation the oncologists have tried. But the last […]

  • Sharing the adventure.

    I heard the advice today on the The Self Publishing Podcast from marketing expert Tim Grahl that writing is an adventure, and when you blog, you should share the adventure. […]

  • Hard lessons in writing: English is bizarre.

    The very first thing I started working on as a baby writer was grammar. That and spelling. As a thirteen-year-old with a typewriter, I thought that the most important thing […]

  • Artist’s brains.

    Stop me if I’m wrong here, but I noticed something funny about artists a while back, and many of my artist friends have agreed. I’ve never met an artist who […]

  • Quality over quantity.

    One of the most-repeated pieces of advice I keep hearing from other self-publishers is to write fast. Put out a lot of content in a short amount of time. Get […]

  • I make faces while writing.

    I once got a piece of advice from a writing coach: “You have to write it like it was when you were there.” I love this. It embodies for me […]

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