I feel like I’m rushing headlong into… something. What? I’ve no idea. But I haven’t really taken a breath in a while, if that makes sense. This weekend I visited my first ever Writer’s group. I drove an hour and…
When life gives you lemons…
Category: Writing Journal
My Novel
My Novel I talk about ‘my novel’ a lot. Really, there’s more than one. The first, well, second if we’re going by what was written in what order, is my contribution to Epic or High Fantasy. It is nowhere near…
Writing is hard
I hear people say that all the time – writing is hard. I don’t think it’s true. Rather, I think writing well is hard – difficult even. But writing? Anyone can do that if they put pen to paper (or…
Changes
I’m looking at making some changes around here. Websites Among the changes I am working on is a change to my websites. Chiefly, atfmb.com and FunctionalNerds.com. Although I like the design and layout of atfmb.com for the most part, and…
The hardest part of writing for me
There is one thing above all others that I find difficult to do when writing: name things. When it comes to names for people, for places (fictitious places, obviously), my mind really does go blank. I will start to develop…
Lunchtime Writing-This thing I’m doing
So. I started this new thing; everyday I take my laptop and I go off somewhere during my lunch hour and I write. At best I get 45 minutes of writing time, but it’s 45 (figuring 10 for travel, 5…
The Written Word (or not)
Today, I took the laptop to lunch to do some writing and didn’t realize that the battery was close to dead, so I wasn’t able to work on the project I’d planned to work on. When I mentioned this on…
Guest Post: The Author Platform
A little while ago, I put up a post titled ‘I’d like to blog for you’. The concept was simple – I’d write a blog post for your blog, based on a subject or topic of your choosing, and vice…
Update-I’d like to blog for you
I little while ago, I put up a post saying that I’d like to blog for you (That offer is still open, btw). Essentially, the idea was that I would write a guest post for your blog and you would…
The Writing
I figured it was time to do some writing updates, since that’s what all of this is really about. Funny enough, the genesis for this piece lies lies in the live episode of ‘I should be writing’ from Mur Lafferty.…