Category: Writer
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Time – an IWSG Post
There’s all these platitudes about time – use your time wisely; time is only a delusion of artificially imposed measurements so our pathetic brains can try to comprehend it; we only need to decide what to do with the time given to us; time … I could go on, but that would take time. The…
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Liebster Award!!!!
*ahem* Chicken, Eggs, Tomatoes, Superglue, Herbal tea, Fruit… Dammit. I think this is my grocery list, not my acceptance speech. Where is…? *rummage* No… ah, here it – no, that’s Daniel’s maze for Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons *crash* *tinkletinkle* What is that? An ashtray? What kid makes an ashtray in arts and crafts anymore?…
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Dissapointment – an IWSG post
I’m going to try something a little different for IWSG today: Motivation! (Ah! Don’t you close this page. Yes, you. I saw you twitch your finger to go on to a different post. Stop twitching until the post is finished, please. Then you can gripe about how I wasted 10 minutes of your life.) Someone…
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Why “Said” Isn’t Quite Dead
“Said is Dead!” a Pinterest post screams at me. Another one. And Another. And again. Oooo! This one did it with an infographic, so it must be true. I remember in a writer’s conference (the only one I’ve ever been able to get to) back in 2008 when several writers and even editors rolled their…
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Building Momentum
I’m slowly tip-toeing back into the writing. I’ll be honest, the constantly looking for excuses to avoid it is irritating, at best. Possibly because it seems so effortless for some of the bigger names (*cough*Marie Force*cough, cough*). Possibly because when a muse does show up, it is effortless. At least, the first draft is effortless…
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First Day Of School…
Yup. The kidlets are out for a whole 5 and 1/2 hours. Yup. I’ve got plans, of course. There’s all these manuscripts bugging me. Things that I WANT to get done. So why is it I’m trying to find something else to do? Daniel has declared he wants to be Jack Skellington for Halloween, which…