Wyso And The Other Creepy Kids on Gerard Street
Man's Best
Sparkers
Better Dig 2
My past several blog posts offer a guide to beginning writers to steer them away from making the mistakes I’ve made on my journey. Aside from grammar mistakes, my biggest mistakes, and also my most expensive ones, dealt with finding an outstanding editor. There is much information on the web telling writers how to find […]
Hugh Howey On Self-Publishing
(updated from September 17, 2014) One of the biggest questions a writer today must answer is should I self-publish my book or go with a traditional publisher? And although this is the number one question in most writing groups, it is not a new concept. As I stated in my last blog, in 1849, unable […]
Writing, 2 Must Dos and a Don’t
In my short history of self-publishing Science Fiction eBooks, there are several things I’ve learned. Profound mistakes to be more exact. I share below, three important things which are a must if you are serious about becoming a writer. I don’t give a lot of advice on writing because there are tons of writers out […]
Thoreau and Simply Writing
Have you ever wished for a simpler lifestyle? A slower pace? We downsized a year ago. I’d hoped a smaller home—less to care for—would give me more time to write. But that hasn’t happened. Yet. Our new home was in great shape, but still—that one small word—there were things that needed doing. So as I […]
Kurt Vonnegut, Finding Time. Living Life As A Writer.
As I mentioned in my last blog, I’m a fan of author Kristen Lamb. She has done much to inform and motivate writers. Especially regarding how technology has shaped and influenced modern day writing and publishing trends. In a recent blog, she discusses Five Simple Ways to Finish a Book. A big complaint of mine, […]
The Ray Bradbury Diet. For Writers Only.
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. —Ray Bradbury, WD (Warning: This diet is not for everyone. It’s only for those individuals who live to write.) As writers, more than we want to eat, sleep, or whatever, we […]
The Dark Hours. Living Life as a Writer
What I find most motivational during those dark hours of self-doubt is reading what other writers have to say. Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded, dismissed but never forgotten—praying for a rain endowed wind or a hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. My […]
Steinbeck And Toole On Writing. The Many and the One.
As I mentioned in my last blog post, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969), committed suicide at thirty-one. His demise can be credited to one rejection from a major publisher. Toole’s rejection—given by Simon & Schuster’s senior editor Robert Gottlieb—went like this: … with all its wonderfulnesses, the book—even better plotted (and still better […]
The Power Of One. Living Life as a Writer.
I’m often asked: How do you do it? How do you keep writing after the rejections? Of course, only my writer friends ask me this question. My regular friends are unaware of my inner struggles. And I would say that most people don’t realize the struggle a writer faces day after day unless these people […]
The Em Dash. Writers Love ’em. Editors Hate ’em. How To Use ’em.
In my last blog, I said I’d take a break from the weird and wonderful and do some updates on my writing series. Confusion exists among writers on the usage of Em dashes. And what’s the difference between an En dash and an Em dash? They’re the same, right? Nope. Below is a quick guide […]
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