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At the moment, I’m deciding to keep the Flash Fiction Friday challenges. Fridays are usually a little low on creative juices for me, so it’s a good way to spark them up again, especially since I’ve been getting Fridays off lately (blissful!), and I’d love to get a lot of catch-up work on my RoW80…
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Maybe it was Jennifer M. Eaton’s recent post on annoying language and trendy words that got my brain gears going on doing a post about this, or maybe it was just I didn’t have anything else to write about, or maybe it was a combination of the two of them, but today, I d ecided…
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“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” -E.L. Doctorow Maybe it’s just that I’m not quite awake yet this morning (one of the risks of being a morning blogger!); maybe I just haven’t had…
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Sometimes, I have a lot of trouble trying to think of what to write about in this blog if I haven’t got a quote, a finished book, an exciting new project, or a RoW80 update. My mind bounced around a few topics to potentially discuss, the foremost of them being a rumination on the types…
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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.” -Ernest Hemingway. Searching for a quote this morning because my brain feels far too dull to come up with anything creative to post today (although that should change in…
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Okay, so, I’ve been thinking about doing a “themed” post like this for a while and, as I struggle to get my coffee maker to work again (why, why, why is it not brewing? Why are you doing this to me, coffee maker? What have I ever done to you except use you to excess?),…
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There is definitely no lack of posts that need to be written in the new year, that’s for sure! Several days ago, the wonderful Susan Howard has awarded me a Kreativ Blogger award (and the “kreativ” spelling of the award never fails to make me giggle). Kreativ‘s a pretty important thing for a writer, so…