writing
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“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.” -Andre Jute. This morning, while I was struggling to think of something to write in this blog today, I was also struggling with the words I had written yesterday for the 6 Month Challenge. I wasn’t pleased with how…
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It’s October 1st, everyone, and you know what that means! Or, rather, you know what that means if you’ve been reading up on my lately or happen to be reading Sue Healy’s blog, too (if you’re not…you should!). About a week ago, Sue put out that she was going to challenge herself to write a…
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I have not had a very successful last few days. Some things in my life have been a little screwy, and the stress inherent in those things have prevented me from dedicating myself to my craft in the way I had intended. But that’s okay. Life happens, and then you just pick your ambitions back…
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As I stand on the precipice of the great cliff of my handful of upcoming writing challenges, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about inspiration lately. Mostly on how I haven’t got much of it (at the moment) and how I know that often changes, but what exactly changes that? What happens to cause inspiration…
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I have spent far too much time this morning trying to decide what to write in this little space today. I wondered if it was just me, if I was just feeling uninspired this morning, but I realized, after a bit more consideration, that it’s mostly just the usual weekend rut. Working retail, my schedule…
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Dear readers, I am positively beat. But I am far from being defeated yet. I am having one of those days where I am painstakingly trying to think of something to write about in this blog space and realizing that all I really want to write is my fiction which, unfortunately, I do not post…
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“‘I know,’ Locke admitted as a pit knotted in his stomach. “And I hate to admit it, but maybe that’s the one thing Jaxson’s been doing right that we haven’t been doing at all. Taking a risk, a gamble.’” This weekend has been sort of clogged with a lot of work; it’s not quite over…
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The New Novel Project is being put into hiatus for the moment; outside of RoW80 and NaNo, all my attentions now are going to be into trying to prep something for some e-publishing experimentation. I’ve been wracking my brain about the potential books I can try to spit out in a whirlwind writing frenzy to…
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Some of you may have noticed: there’s a lot of talk going around about independent publishing, especially e-publishing, and I know that I, for one, have been trying to listen in on as much as I can. Part of me wonders if my interest is purely pre-preemptive, as I have nothing even remotely close to…
L.S. Engler 