Monday report
Unsurprisingly, I lost momentum at the end of last week with the news of the massacre in Connecticut. I send all good wishes to the grieving families, and hope that we as a country find a way to deal better … Continue reading →
Hugh Howey’s Excellent Contract
Hugh Howey has signed a book contract. In itself, that’s no surprise. Hugh’s Wool series has sold over 300,000 copies in ebook form, and film rights have already been optioned. But the nature of the contract Hugh and his agent … Continue reading →
Monday report
Last week I wrote 4078 words, for a total of 24370, according to Scrivener. That’s about 1000 less than goal, but I spent one day working on the plot. And I still haven’t figured out exactly where things are going, … Continue reading →
Truth
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?†― Cornelia Funke
Continue reading →Escape from Jesus Island
My friend Shawn French is a writer and artist. His best known effort was creating a (hard core) indie-produced horror film named The Wrong House. Currently he’s involved in writing and organizing a graphic novel called Escape from Jesus Island, … Continue reading →
Post-NaNoWriMo check-in and current plans
My word count for National Novel Writing Month was 20,292 words. The official NaNo count was 20,273 words. I don’t know why they’re giving me a different count than Scrivener, but it doesn’t matter. That’s a good word count for … Continue reading →
A warning for writers who wish to self-publish
A lot of the traffic to this site is for my page of Resources for Self-Publishers (link in the menu at the top of the page). I try to only add resources that I can personally vouch for, or that … Continue reading →
Truth
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. – Don DeLillo
Continue reading →People who are beginners…
David Shiyang Liu took a snippet of a talk by Ira Glass for Current.tv and turned it into a video which he published on Vimeo. The talk was about storytelling and the entire talk is worth listening to. But this … Continue reading →
NaNoWriMo 2012
Yep, I’m off and running with NaNoWriMo again this year. I really like the ideas I have for this novel, and so far so good with the story and the writing. I’ve put a widget in the sidebar that shows … Continue reading →