Paths of Writing
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 …
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One Man Show
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 …
The D.E.P. (Derail Every Plan) Method
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, …
Vincent Steps Out
It was time for the 39th annual “L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Dinner”. I had heard much of this event, and this year Dennis invited me to be his guest along with Kris. The decorations …
LATFoB 2023
LATFoB 2023 I spent this weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books volunteering at the GLAWS booth. There, you see, here’s a picture of me at the booth. Usually, I go to big events like this and take lots …
Getting ready for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
First of all, the LA Times moved its headquarters to El Segundo, so I don’t know why it isn’t called the El Segundo Times. But anyway… The LA Times Festival of Books is next weekend. You can see all the …
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Mad Woman Goes to Conference
The latest California Creative Writers Conference was recently held over two consecutive weekends. It started on Friday afternoon, 3/3/23, then all day Saturday and Sunday, then in the afternoons Monday through Wednesday. This was the virtual part of the conference …
Digitally Tired
This blog is going to be short. I’ve been at the Digital Authors and Indie Publishing virtual conference all weekend, and it will continue throughout the week in the evenings. Here are some of the highlights so far: Sat. 10:00am …
The Short of It
So, I’m currently working on my 165-page screenplay. I’m trying to get it down to at least 143 pages, the length of the first screenplay in the trilogy. By page 25, the heroes have figured out who the villain is …
The Long and the Short of it
As I have been mentioning, my critique group has now gone over my entire script for my second steampunk story. I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback, both in the Zoom meetings and in written notes. At 165 pages, I …