Tag: observations
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Area 51 Update
I’ve referred to a spot in the basement as my own personal Area 51, filled with boxes and bags of projects that were started and never completed (hence, UFO – UnFinished Objects). I didn’t think it was a big area, maybe three feet by four feet by four feet. It wasn’t a slap’n’dash pile of…
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Tackling Area 51 In The Basement
Has anyone else encountered an odd psychological resistance to working on your Unfinished projects? I’ve made progress, I have, really. But some days it just feels like I’m flogging a dead horse to finish some of these things that I started years ago. I’m not talking about “I bought yard for this project, but I…
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IWSG April 2020
So this month’s question is: How are things in your part of the world? Very little writing in the last 6 months, despite my efforts. Less than awesome, but survivable. Things have been like that for a long time, actually. I thought I’d moved past it last fall, but then everything went to crap,…
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IWSG March 2020
Other than the obvious holiday traditions, have you ever included any personal or family traditions/customs in your stories? Not really. I should though, if for no other reasons than the fact that it would give my characters “extra” character. Like how my Mom would always eat the ears off my chocolate bunnies before I even…
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October 2019 IWSG
October 2 question – It’s been said that the benefits of becoming a writer who does not read is that all your ideas are new and original. Everything you do is an extension of yourself, instead of a mixture of you and another author. On the other hand, how can you expect other people to…
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IWSG July 2019
What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Umm… I think the list would be shorter if we asked what personal traits I didn’t write into my characters. I’ve used so many things – my personal faith, my outlooks on what a relationship should and shouldn’t be, my mule-headed tendency to try and do…
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