Tomorrow I’m doing something new. I’m taking a script writing class. It’s a brand new creative ocean to go swimming in, and I feel like a very tiny guppy who isn’t going to be able to complete with the lovely fish in California who have years of experience talking about…
Writing is hard. Publishing is harder. There’s a bell curve. The weakest get weeded out early on. They talk about wanting to write, and the book they’ve always imagined, but never actually sit down to write. On the top end you lose the truly gifted. The delicate orchids of writer-dom…
One of the first lessons a novelist learns is that writing a book is not like writing an essay in school. The dynamics are different. The time factors are different. The end results are different. The drafts are different. With an essay it’s common to finish a full draft of…
It’s that time of year again! You know, the season of setting goals, making resolutions, and generally convincing yourself that this year will be different through the sheer force of your holiday-fueled determination. Everyone finds it easy to make goals when there’s a ton of enthusiasm and peer support for…