random musings
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Genre is something I don’t talk of much on this blog, but I know I’ve always had something to say about it on posts from other people. Most of the time, what I have to say is how I’m a big supporter of exploring different genres and how much I dislike the idea that an…
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We all know how important it is to set the scene in your writing, but what about setting the scene for your writing? I woke up this morning feeling like I haven’t been doing nearly as much writing lately as I should be and, considering C.M. Hubbard posted about just the same thing today, I’m…
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The questions seem simple at first, though their answers are usually obnoxiously complicated and difficult to explain. What inspires you? Where do your ideas come from? How do you think of new things to write? They’re also questions I’ve been asking myself an awful lot lately, especially on days like this when I’m having trouble…
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The idea of fear preventing us, especially as writers, from accomplishing what we dream is not something that has often effected me. If anything is my downfall, it’s sheer laziness, but the tables have turned a little. I’m still struggling with the beginning of the reboot to Serpent in a Cage, standing at the threshold…
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I am constantly looking for new ways to be inspired. I probably shouldn’t be; what I should be doing is focusing more on the projects that have already been inspired into creation, but there’s a part of me that always wants to be working on something else new and interesting. I find challenges or games…
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I’m going to make today’s post pretty short and sweet, as I have to go off and get ready for work soon, but there was a topic that’s been dancing around my mind for a while. Not much of a topic, though, so that makes it perfect for a day like today. And that topic…
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Some of you dear readers are well-aware that, when it comes to games on my Kindle, I’m a little obsessed. One of the nice things about these games is that, in order to make any progress without spending money on it, you have to have a lot of patience, waiting a few hours or even…
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Though I can’t remember the details of it anymore, I woke up this morning with the trails of a dream that could have made a good story. I’m a little disappointed that everything between waking up and sitting in front of my computer to write this blog has eradicated most of the detail, but I…
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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…
L.S. Engler 