Tag: Writer

  • Fictiophilia – an IWSG Post

    Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? Sad to say, yes, I have. And to be fair, most people have. There are few people in this world who haven’t fantasized about someone.  Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Zoe Washburne, Velma Dinkly, Cole Brookstone, Harry Dresden… the list goes on. I bet if you…

  • ISWG March Post

    March 1 Question: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out? Heh. I have a trilogy that I started when I was 12 and finished when I was 27. Each book runs in the neighborhood of 100,000 words. I’d like to think that it shows determination and…

  • IWSG Post

    I’m taking a tap-out today. My head is in a less than awesome space. So we shall answer this month’s hot, HOT, SIZZLING HOT IWSG 1st Wednesday prompt: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader? Badly, sad to say. I’m very detail-oriented by nature. I may have ranted about that in…

  • Looking at How I’m Going to Get There

    One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…

  • IWSG Post

    IWSG Question Jan 4 What writing rule do you wish you’d never heard? Ummm … all of them? Don’t get me wrong, there does need to be a baseline for communication in any language  – In the English language, you really do have to put the verb in the right place – “Jane ran with…

  • How’s Your Brain? An IWSG Post

    Is it so soggy and sloppy that it’s leaked out of your ears and slid across the floor whimpering to hide under the couch because of NaNoWriMo? Did the Thanksgiving holidays and your relations and in-laws cook it for dinner (they were trying to be helpful, after all)? Did you participate in the frantic, deal…