Is the Screen Staring Back at Me? Some days, it feels like the blank screen is judging me. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash You know what a writer does? They write. A writer sits down in front of their screen or a blank page and puts the ideas in their head onto it. The process takes typing or pen to paper. Given how crappy my handwriting is, for me, this is about typing. When
Reading to Improve Your Writing Reading as a writer is still super important. Photo by Hümâ H. Yardım on Unsplash For many years, reading was something of a luxury. I loved to do it, but finding the time for it proved increasingly challenging. Still, I know that reading as a writer is important. Why? Because reading and seeing how others write is just as important to honing your skills as doing your own creating. You
Finding the Courage to Write Being able to write is not automatic, even for pros. Photo by Peter Olexa on Unsplash Sometimes I wonder why I should bother. At this point, I’ve finished and published 3 series totaling 16 books, 2 standalone novels, and 3 books from 2 other incomplete series. I know my math tends to be less than spectacular, but that comes to 21 books I’ve put out into the world. And that’s
Writing Fighting: Applying Plausibility to Combat Combat scenes are best when they flow and are believable. Photo by Nando García on Unsplash At last year’s Farpoint con, I asked for and got to lead a panel on writing fighting. My intent for the panel was to explore making combat scenes realistic and plausible, and what goes into that. Unfortunately, one of my panelists hijacked the panel and kept redirecting us to discussing how combat should
The Key to Writing is to Write Yet sometimes the planning, edits, distractions, and other issues get in the way. Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash I know many a would-be writer who has come across the biggest issue in writing: Sitting down to write. You’d think that as a writer, the easiest part is sitting down to write. Freuquently, it’s not. In fact, it’s often the hardest thing to do. Sit down. Write. Wait,
How Do You Choose Your Author Identity? More than 10 years in, I still struggle with this. The author(s) and a couple of his books. In 2011, I was invited to submit and publish my first-ever piece. It was a short story about magic and pirates called A Treacherous Stone. You can read it in the Rum and Runestones Anthology. A year later, I was invited to create a second pirate and magic story for
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