What I’m learning along the path to becoming a writer.
Happy Easter! This year, Easter fell on the last day of the first quarter, so here are my GOALS! Some things I won’t get to until I finish other things first. One thing, losing weight, I’m not doing well at …
2024 GOALS – First Quarter (the expurgated version) Read more »
The Big Picture: What I really want is to be a published author. To that end, the first three goals are about writing. Once, I get my first book published, I need to follow it up with my second book. …
This is a blog I wish I didn’t have to write. The writing community lost a dear friend this week. Tony N. Todaro, cofounder and president of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society passed away this past Tuesday, December 12th, …
Personally, I don’t do writing prompts because I already have enough ideas I want to write. I’m working on my steampunk trilogy, which if it’s successful, I want to expand to about a dozen books. I got some stories I …
With Kris being out of work (see last week’s blog), she has been pursuing other means of income. One of them is writing in various forms. She is using her Patreon account to pursue her love of writing and generally …
Writing is such an individual journey with so many individual styles. Take music, for example. When I write, I need quiet. Music is too distracting for me. Music may change moods in the middle when I need to concentrate on …
Letting Music Shape the World of The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles Read more »
People have this image of a writer spending his time locked up in his basement typing away. And while there is a lot of that – personally, sitting at my desk in the corner of my bedroom underneath my “My …
I’m in two critique groups, one for novels and one for screenplays. My novel group met yesterday and chapters 4 and 5 of my first steampunk novel were up. The great thing about being in a critique group is that, …
Next week, I will be reviewing my goals for the first quarter of 2023. I’m doing pretty good in most categories, except one, which is arguably the most important one. My writing. I should have finished chapter three of my …
Starting a new novel can be intimidating, but also exciting. And it’s one of my major goals of the year: Write a new novel and write a new screenplay. While I’m still working on trimming my second steampunk screenplay, it …