Category: Random
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Writer’s Block
I’ve been dealing with some… stuff lately. I’ll expound upon it later but right now, I’d like to kick it off with this little headliner. Yes, I know. The standard “good little writer response” to the phrase Writer’s Block is supposed to be: There’s no such thing. Yeah, well. It still happens, whether or not…
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Mercurial Monday Projects
I’m not certain if I can put up anymore “writing tidbits” for a while. I’ve ranted about how writing is kicking my butt right now, and with the holidays and all that associated nonsense, well… Things are what they are. So we’re going off-road a little bit. Maybe stir up a little creativity for myself…
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Longing for Stability
Some nights the words settle heavy on my mind, demanding I rise early from bed and move them out. Sometimes the ideas fall like an avalanche from my fingertips – page after page after page of useless rock chasing me down a hill and urging me on or risk being crushed by their weight. And…
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Why?
Why write? Why take this path? It’s a question I’ve seen float about on a lot of blogs. The typical answer after much meandering is “Because I’d still do it anyway. It’s like breathing. I’d die inside if I didn’t write.” Okay. Fair answer. It’s the same answer everyone gives. It’s the answers readers and…
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Desperate to Breathe
Some days the words spin around my mind, demanding I open my mouth and gasp to let them out. Sometimes the ideas whip like angry tendrils of air from my fingertips – pages of words that take my breath away with frightening gloriousness of it all spinning before me. They dance and swirl around me.…
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Reality Sometimes Hurts…
So… FP Dorchak lauded my awesomeness on his page. I guess that means I’ll have to name a character in a book after him or something. I suppose Frank Dorchak could be a criminal mastermind somewhere in my steampunk series. Or maybe an engineer. Ooo… there’s a kid in the second one I was thinking…
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