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Tag: writing
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Working up to Writing
I’ve been on a sort of writing hiatus almost since the beginning of the semester, way back at the end of August. I am, at the moment, counting down 26 hours until I have a break, and during that break I plan to write like a madwoman. There are a few reasons for that… But…
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Reading to Write
A group of us were prompted to offer some advice to a group of young writers who were considering NaNo this year. You can find Brad Torgerson’s excellent post on the topic here, and if you follow the Mad Genius Club I suspect you will see more along that line – I did mine more…
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Blast from the Past: Writing with Hope
I first published this post a little more than a year ago, but it seems an excellent follow-on to yesterday’s reminder of what Human Wave is. And it’s Monday, so I’m diving into homework and not thinking about the blog. Eric S Raymond nails a list of symptoms to look for as warnings signs that a…
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Writing Human Wave
It’s been a while since this came up, and someone asked ‘what is Human Wave, anyway?” in a group I belong to. There is more at the original Sarah Hoyt post, but this is, in a nutshell, how to write a human wave story. I’ve gone through and added emphasis to draw the eye to…
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Writing, Communication, and Administrivia
I’m up at the Mad Genius Club with the story of a mislectorist, Look, something a certain author needs to grasp is that although you may like your writing style, and the book is (traditionally, indies don’t have this limitation) published so you can’t change it, that doesn’t mean that readers haveto buy it or…
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Morning Miscellany
My post is up at MGC this morning: I wanted to write this post for a couple of reasons. One, to counter the claim I saw recently that crowdfunding is necessary to create a debut novel, because you need money to write. Note that the claim here is not: I need money for editing, formatting,…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Writing under Duress
Despite being on vacation the last few weeks, writing has not come easily. Finally, in desperation, I asked my writing group if they’d be interested in doing a writing challenge to help me with accountability. Fortunately, I’m not the only one struggling and they were open to playing along. So now I’m doing 500 words…
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Breaking the Block: Jade Star Snippet 1
I’m sitting here this morning contemplating what I want to write about. Really, I want to go write fiction. Yesterday in the early evening, while digging through old files looking for stories to include in the collection I’m compiling, I found a scrap I’d forgotten I’d written. Since I have in mind to create some…
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How to Win as Writer
Read the whole thing at Mad Genius Club… We live in a society – or most of us do, since I’m sure there are a few readers who hail from distant shores that aren’t the US of A – which fosters the idea that everyone will win. Whatever the game is. From reading contests at…
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Fiction vs Nonfiction
Written by Sanford Begley I usually write non fiction. Essays, blog posts, reports and the like. I’ve been doing it to some small extent since school. I do reasonably well, though I usually run it by a friend or two to check it before releasing it into the world. There are usually spelling and punctuation…
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State of the Writer
Tired. Yesterday I spent literally all day running around with my kids, getting groceries, laundry done… all those little things that you must do when you’ve been away and on the road for eight days. Today, for some reason, I ache. I contemplated just writing in public, this morning. Starting where I’m at in the…