Category: Writer

  • Too… Something?

    I haven’t written since the day before the bomb cyclone in March. I was actually winding down, anyway – not because I was done with the particular book, but because I was struggling again. Then my laptop, while functional, has been giving me increasing amounts of electronic geriatric attitude, so it needed to be replaced…

  • No More Battery Juice

    I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to go and what I needed…

  • Lost in the Middle

    What I like most about writing with the muse whispering seductively in my ear is that I kinda know where things are going. I’ve got a beginning, there’s some stuff in the middle and I know how things are going to end in a rough fashion. Of course things change as I write while suffering…

  • I’m Going To Kill Him….

    I love him. No, really. I do. Sometimes. Just not when he’s irritating me. Like today. He has a day off and I’m trying to work on something. I’m trying to work on a writing something. It’s a fight scene. This isn’t something you can just rough out and heavily edit later to make it…

  • IWSG March

      Whose perspective do you like to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And why?   This could quite possibly be a result of TV and movie consumption over 40+ years, but I tend to dabble in both, in part because of the effects I want to play with. The other…

  • AIC

    I was sick all last week. Like coughing so hard I was throwing up sick. Like lying on the couch and living the whole day in a partial doze sick. Like writing or checking email is impossible because I have to save what little mental energy I have for checking math homework sick. The only…