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Category: Writing

  • The Mythos of the NYTBS

    Everyone wants to be on this list. EVERYONE. If you’re writing something or have published and you say you don’t care about the New York Times Best Seller List or Wall Street Journal Bestseller List or even the USA Today Best Seller List, you are a liar. This being said,…

  • Villain Reluctance

    I wonder if I’m avoiding my manuscript because of my anti-hero. He’s a racist asshole. But he’s also necessary to the plot. As is his downfall. Which the way I have planned will work out as: Reader: “Damn. You are a racist son of a bitch! Why hasn’t someone ganked…

  • Beta Readers

    I’m trying to find beta-readers. I’m also trying to find critquers who actually critique, understand the genre, and don’t try to force changes. One candidate has been sorta helpful. The rest have been less than. Going to friends and family has been more like this: “Oh my God! It is…

  • New Year, New Plans

    The second post of the year and we’re already to Insecure Writer’s Support Group Day. Oy. Like the peer pressure to make resolutions isn’t hard enough, now I have to be introspective and all that before I’m 40? Dang. Hmmmm… bloggy subjects… *sounds of flipping paper* Ah, no. That’s a…