I preface this with the usual sentiment of everything I write where advice is offered: these are only suggestions. As adults, if we want to spend all our free time watching TV or playing video games, who am I to say you shouldn’t do that? One of the best things about being an adult: once […]
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A Second Retreat
In ten days, I’ll be in East Texas — holed up in a cabin and writing all weekend. Last year’s writing retreat — the first — was enough of a success that this year merited an even better place (Caddo Lake State Park)…a bit earlier in the season, in the hope of cooler weather than […]
How to End a Novel
It’s been a while since I made a writing video… It’s been a while since I’ve made any kind of video… Work, life, and some other busy things have meant — in recent months — that I’ve only been able to work on writing…not writing and blogging and making the occasional video on the side. […]
On Audience and the Writing We Do
I’m still alive (writing and, at least for the rest of March, putting in extra hours at work). There’s a certain pride in still writing fiction during crunch time during a release at work requiring some extra [tech] writing. Busy times…looking forward to April. Later in April is a mini writing retreat, similar to the […]
Body of Work
[Cross-posted from my personal blog.] * * * I’ve talked before about creating a body of work before (even used an image of piled wood to make the point). In fact, that post was in honor of the 25th episode of the Men in Gorilla Suits podcast. Today marks Episode 53 — our one-year anniversary! […]