Pantser or planner – your writing practice is yours and yours alone. For most of my writing career, I’ve been a pantser. Pantser = one who writes by the seat of their pants. An idea popped into my head – and I sat down with my notebook or at the keyboard and started on it. And in this way, I created multiple stories and produced several novels. Sometime in 1998 or so, I sat down
Can you have too many stories in the queue? I don’t believe so – but your mileage may vary. In September 2015, I began a sci-fi story idea that would evolve into my Void Incursion series. I published the first two books of the series in 2020, then the next 2 in 2021. The fifth and final book of the series is currently waiting to be sent to an editor. At the end of 2020,
Do you go with traditional, non-traditional, or REALLY non-traditional publishing? For a long, long time, the only way to make any money as a fiction writer was to go the traditional publishing route. Along the way, you could submit short stories to magazines, lifestyle sections of newspapers, and anything else that might help you land an agent and/or a contract from a publishing house. This was the only way to earn money as a professional
Yes, but you must do the work to make that fleeting idea into something more. Have you ever had an idea that came and went almost instantly? Or have you had an idea that nagged at you until you addressed it and did something with it? Sometimes, all you get is a fleeting vision, an idea, an image. Maybe from there, you get a further notion to take it somewhere. I know this process well.
While it may have helped me as an author, I’m done with Twitter. Like you, I’ve been watching Twitter come apart at the seams. What Mr. Musk had planned as his end game for his actions is anyone’s guess. While I expected it to be gone soon – with or without Musk at its helm – I’ve left of my own accord. To be honest – I’ve spent very little time on Twitter overall. Between
There’s always a line – and you choose if it intimidates you or not. There are many lines in life for us to find, straddle, and cross. Most are utterly intangible. They’re lines that represent crossing from one idea to another. Some are deeply negative – like making polarizing statements, disenfranchising people, and otherwise causing hurt and/or harm by crossing the line. But others are potentially positive. But they’ll represent some kind of change that
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Mondays – Positivity (and related ideas for making choices and decisions in life).
Wednesdays – Pathwalking (my philosophy for consciously choosing how to live your life mindfully, on your terms).