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Writing Against the Odds
I am going to assume all the writerly people who read this blog (*cough*most of you*cough*) have seen this article by the MFA guy ranting about people who go into MFA programs. Not overlapping with MFA...
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Writing Triage
Dear Blog, Hi. How ya doing? Feeling kinda ignored, eh? Well I swear you’re not dead. Not a bit. But……. You’re on life support a bit though. I need to triage my free time. The kiddo is three. Holy crap...
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An Open Thank You
This is an open thank you letter to Delilah S. Dawson, author of kick ass books and teacher of kick ass classes. Dear Delilah, Thank you. We just finished up the LitReactor class about turbocharging...
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Character Questions
When I come up with the first inkling of a story, it tends to be a scene with a character in the midst of some action or in a certain location. It’s very “scenario first, plot later” which that alone...
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Donations for a Kidney
I almost exclusively keep this blog to writing related things. Beyond the glimpse of my twitter feed on the left hand column, I keep this focused on writing. Twitter is for all the other stuff. I...
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Novel Update
I haven’t updated the progress In A Murphy Minute in a while because… well… the progress sucked. Frankly I’ve been working on this one for way too long. I wrote somewhere around 35k for version one....
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Recent Reads – October Style
So I’ve committed to my writing hommies, RSA Garcia and Drea James, to make a big push on In A Murphy Minute. That goal of getting a draft done by my birthday 35 days from now is still sorta...
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Obligatory Year End Post 2015
It’s time for the Obligatory Year End Post! My reading level has gone down this year because of the job I’m working and my time management is still lacking so I never get to write as much as I should....
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Bird
I have decided to start the year with a story I’ve had kicking around for a while. Enjoy. Bird by Mike Douton I stared at the wicked eyes of the kestrel on my lab table. The diminutive hawk could be...
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Don’t Quit
Hey… long time no post. Been doing a lot of other things. I don’t want to forget about the blog, but it’s all about triaging that time right. This means working on fiction and I wrote a kick ass story...
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