Category: Random
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D is for Decisions
Why Writing is Like a Relationship When you’re in a relationship, there comes a point where you must make a decision. Are you serious about this or are you just screwing around? It’s okay to not be serious. Let’s just put that card on the table right now. You’re allowed to just be a hobbyist.…
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C is for Commitment
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Commitment. How many relationships have ended because one person wasn’t willing to commit as deeply as the other? This is a big deal. You have a wonderful idea. You think it’s awesome. But the work involved in making it come to life is daunting. It’s okay to feel that…
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B is for Beauty
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Beauty. It sounds shallow, but just stop and think about it for a moment. Something attracted you to that person. Was it their hair? Their eyes? The smile? Their incredible ass? The swagger? Their nose? Their sense of humor? Something of that person who you chose to involve yourself…
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A is for Amore
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Ah, Amore. Love. It’s the first thing that you have to have to make a relationship work. It also helps a lot when you’re working on a manuscript. There are different levels of love in a relationship: just friends, best friends, lovers, marriage partner, crime partner, your pet goldfish,…
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An Interesting and Frightening Development
This is more a post about my personal thoughts on the matter as opposed to the facts of the case, just so you’re aware. As you may remember (or not) I posted somewhere… *rummage, rustle* Oh, ew… I thought I threw that out. *paper flipping* Ah, here we go. Yes, right here I posted my…
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Schnitzel
I lurk on yahoo groups and blogs sifting for useful nuggets to stash away into my very rough plan of self-publishing. Maybe I’ll delve into that plan someday. Today I’m going to prattle on about cooking, and how it may apply to writing. My family are picky eaters. There’s no other way to say it.…