How long does it take to judge your interest in a work? How long can you read before knowing whether or not you want to continue? I’m not sure. Not really. But I’m hoping that this opening to A Song in Darkness will be enough to make any reader want to carry on with the … More A Song in Darkness – First 532 words
A few days ago I mentioned that I was getting my first round of edits. Everyone knows that edits can be a bit of a soul crushing experience. I mean, no one likes to be shown all the things that they did wrong, and that is essentially what being edited is. Still there is good … More Time + Edits = Better
I’m sure that all writers work slightly differently. Or maybe very differently. Do we write on keyboards, longhand, on phones? Do we meticulously plot out our works or do we get a germ of an idea and just run with it. Regardless of what some might argue, there really is no one right way to … More First Edits
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking of what I like. What type of fiction do I enjoy? Now, in some way this flies in the face of the rules of being successful. It seems that so much of the advice in terms of how to be successful is to write towards a given market. … More The Power of Gray
I don’t really enjoy editing my work. At least not the actual act of editing. I mea, I enjoy having my words get all cleaned up, and locating those missing words that my fingers failed to type as my mind spat them out. But the process of looking over what I wrote and seeing all … More The Joy of Rewrites
Here I am. It is five o’clock in the afternoon. In little over an hour I will need to leave my apartment and pick up my son from day care. Depending on his mood, we will most likely play there for about thirty minutes, then we will head home. He’ll be excited to see his … More The Need to Do Better
It is hard to believe that my Indiegogo campaign is almost half way over. It’s one of areas where time moves in odd ways. Somedays it feels like this is a slow, dragging time. Other days it feels like I can’t keep up with how fast it is going. I’m not going to lie, I … More Indiegogo 5: The Money Side
I am writing this in the train on the way to work. Feeling good, if a little nervous. The campaign is a little over a quarter of the way finished and I have raised a quarter of the funds I am hoping for. I look around and see things I need to do better. I’ll … More Indiegogo 2: Asking
Almost two years since my first campaign on Indiegogo, I started one to print my second novel. Last time my indiegogo campaign came out almost as an afterthought. I’d already released the book through the many self-publishing options (chiefly the smash words gamut and Amazon) and many friends had already purchased a copy. But, there … More Indiegogo 1: Process
I’ve cracked the code. Well, maybe not the code but at least a code. The sad thing is, I’m not the first person to have some up with this secret, nor am I the first person to write about it. Now some background. For the second year in a row, I started 2017 off with … More A Secret For Successful Writing
Deadly Troubadour 