I’ll be posting more from my Scylla and Charybdis playlist once I have a release date for the novel, but in the meantime, here’s a “general purpose” song on it that I really like simply because it’s imaginative and joyous:In The Arms Of The Milky …
I figured it was about time I put some long-term goals into place, writing wise. I’ve always found deadlines liberating, and the purpose of posting them here?Anyone reading this blog post is a witness. Feel free to hold me to it.November 23…
So I spent the last two weeks doing a self-imposed Boot Camp, writing a flash or poetry piece a day from a list of prompts I collected / generated. My prompt from Day 12 was “She watched the bloodstained dress burn.” (Not necessarily to inc…
Pro-Writing Aid, an online program that analyzes your writing and gives you recommendations to improve it.As I was looking at a report on a piece it gave the number of adverbs and recommended that I remove three. I must have missed this before but I do tend to use the old editor, instead of the… Continue reading The Craft of #Writing: Beware the Adverb Nazis.
So more fresh madness for you all—I’ll be at Myths and Legends Con in Denver this weekend. I’ll be selling and signing books, and I’m on loads on panels. There’s a link at the bottom for anyone interested in coming, plus my panel schedule: Fri, 5:00 PM-5:50 PM, Writing the story is the easiest part! […]
Wow, I checked and I haven’t done one of these random updates for a long time–like eighteen months. I didn’t realize it had been quite that long. Well, whatever. I’ve been slacking, actually. I took about a month off from writing or doing much related to writing, so I am back now feeling recharged and … Continue reading Daily Update #36