What I’m learning along the path to becoming a writer.
This week I wrote an emotional scene featuring my protagonist’s mentor. My good guys had just been through a harrowing fight scene with my bad guy, then through a miscommunication, my protagonist almost loses a limb. Afterwards, in the calm …
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 …
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 …
20,000 words (and one Star Destroyer) under the belt. Read more »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time. Read more »
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 …
What if we had just called it the flu all along? Read more »