3,444 more words.
Last week I wrote that my goal would be to write 3,000 words a week until my novel was done. I actually wrote 3,444 words. Not bad consider we were dealing with a roach problem at the time. Who wants …
Category: Writing
What I’m learning along the path to becoming a writer.
20,000 words (and one Star Destroyer) under the belt.
Tonight I am finishing my ten straight days away from work. It was a great vacation. I didn’t go anywhere, there’s no where to go right now. But I got up late every day, wrote and reached my goal of …
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Write on, Brother, Write on!
I had four events scheduled in April, all of them were cancelled. So, I’ve just been accumulating vacation time at work. With the 4th of July coming up I thought I’d take a week off and have ten straight days …
Getting Ready for Anything
If you go to this Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/520330468630105/ you will see our ad for the next Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference. You will see what we’re planning, our educational tracts for Aspiring, Active and Accomplished writers, our ProCritiques™ and our …
Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Yes, that is a handwritten version of a script. Actually, it’s the first version of a Christmas story I have been working on for a number of years. It’s taken a back seat to my Steampunk trilogy I’m currently working …
Critique This
I didn’t get any writing done this week. Not that I was lazy, I had to critique three stories for my critique group that met yesterday. Usually I try to write during the week and do my critiques on the …
GLAWS Rewrites Itself
The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is an active group. We have critique groups that meet once or twice a month, depending on the group, we have monthly Special Speaker Events that are open to the public and we, along …
What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time.
Sometimes I just like to have fun and play one of my favorite refrigerator games, “Name That Leftover”. But you can really only play it once a month. Or every two months. Three or more months gets really challenging. And …
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What if we had just called it the flu all along?
Words have meaning. Words have power. Our choice of words determine how we process information. Recently President Trump got flack for calling Covid-19 the “China Flu”. One reporter asked him if that wasn’t racist. Well, no it isn’t. China isn’t …
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WHAT NOT TO SAY
The first GLAWS special speaker event of the year was held last weekend on Saturday, January 17, 2015. The topic was “What Not to Say to an Editor or Agent” with speaker Steven Hutson. Mr. Hutson is a literary agent …