You know, I got to thinking the other day about blogging and I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be neat to write something for somebody else? See, I have All Things From My Brain here so that, when the urge…
I’d like to blog for you
Category: Writing Journal
Influences Part 1
Everyone is influenced by the people in their lives, by the things they enjoy; movies, books, tv shows – you name it. I’m no different. If you’ve read this blog for a bit, you probably have a sense of what…
Balancing the details
I’m thinking about my writing today and writing in general. Thought I’d share. I like to think that every writer, no matter their genre, struggles from time to time with how much detail to put into their works, and how…
This weekend
The plan for the weekend is to lock myself away for as long as possible and try to really push on writing projects. I know I haven’t talked about such things in a while, and there’s reasons for that. What…
Advice for all unpublished writers
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors. Hopefully you will find this as insightful and illuminating as I have. Here it…
Got Vocabulary?
I remember the first time I saw the word ‘apoplectic’ and wondering, what in the name of heaven is that?! What does it mean? Where did it come from?! I was intrigued. I saw it again, years later, in the…
Where do you keep your writing?
One of the possibly dumbest things I do is carry my writing with me on a little USB drive. It occurred to me just last night that I haven’t backed it up to anything in a very long time and…
Writing Contests that I’ve found
I want to start his post by saying that I have NOT entered any of these contests. Not yet, anyway. But since I was doing some research, I decided that it would be nice of me to share it with…
My Writing Projects
I decided an update was in order on my various writing projects. Woot, right? I know you were really curious what’s been going on so here it is. #1 Sam Kane Synopsis: Sam Kane is a detective with the Denver…
Not everyone is gonna like your writing
In tenth grade, college prep English, we did a lot of creative writing. We also did a lot of reading. None of the reading was genre stuff – no fantasy or scifi. It was mostly ‘literature’, which is fine, but…