Are the ideas my imagination – or am I channeling another time/place? There can be philosophy and psychology associated with fiction. While most of us are pretty sure the worlds we envision – far-out places of fantasy, science fiction, and the like – come from within us – they may be out there. Somewhere. Get real, you might say. King’s Landing and the world of George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire is fiction.
Revisiting an old challenge in the name I publish under. I debated this notion several years ago. Just after I began to publish on Amazon, it became a mountain I needed to climb. The issue at hand is the name I publish under. I write in three distinct genres – publishing online in two of them. While yes, the content writing, blogs for others, and the like that I do freelance still has my name
You can’t just be the thing without doing the thing – be it writer, artist, entrepreneur, etc. The line between would-be writer and writer is clear. Have you written anything? Okay, maybe the line isn’t quite that clear. Writing a plan is partial credit for the process of writing. I have, for the majority of my writing career, been a pantser. Sit at the computer, start working on words and make it happen. Often, I
You always get to choose to sink or swim. Probably the biggest certainty in life is the uncertainty of life. Take it from me – today you might be chilling out, planning for tomorrow, and in that light take a walk to the post office a quarter-mile away. Then, unexpectedly, a week of your life has gone by that you have no recollection of – and you find yourself in hospital severely injured after being
When returning to unfinished works, recognize there’s been change. I began writing what would become my fantasy series, The Source Chronicles, in 1998. A lot of work went into it, and before long I had completed the first three books. That, of course, led to the series becoming 5 books (instead of the original planned 4), but that’s neither here nor there. I started to work on the 4th book, Guardians, in 2009, eleven years
The question of “selling out” can get convoluted. There is an impression that someone who writes for money – or does anything else for money – is a sellout. This notion, unfortunately, has created the idea of the starving artist. There is this concept of nobility that comes of art for art’s sake without remuneration. Let me just put this out here: That’s a crock of shit. The “nobility” many believe comes of keeping their
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