Do you have chittering brain weasels messing with you? Confession time. While I can put on an excellent façade of confidence and self-assurance – I am in an ongoing war with self-doubt, my self-worth, and the like. This is a war I’ve been fighting all my life. Though I win many of the battles of this war – I know that it has no end in sight. Most of the time, this is a cold
If you think I’m writing to you – I am. Let’s address the 4 things you’re afraid of. Writing is something lots of people dream of doing. While the process comes easier to some of us than to others – that doesn’t mean it doesn’t scare you. I’ve known lots of would-be writers who are afraid to write for one reason or another. It might be fear of being seen, fear of failure, concern about
Some days you flow better than others with your work. Now that I’ve completed my Void Incursion sci-fi series – apart from editing and then having the book professionally edited – I’m done with the writing I’ve been doing. I am not, of course, done. As I’ve written before, I have planned out 10 more books. There are 4 more books for my Forgotten Fodder series. This will follow another investigation with Onima, Jace, and
How my nonfiction and fiction connect define my overall brand. I began writing fiction some forty years ago. I was 9. That first work of sci-if – called Wildfire – was imaginative and literally colorful (hand-written and illustrated by me). But it might also have caused some psychologists to question my mindset (spoiler alert: The kids – who are the protagonists of the story – end up killing not just all the robots created to
Exploring the process of homing in on my target audience. Realizing some of my limitations regarding marketing my brand – and taking a direction I’ve deeply desired to go for a while – I have a new coach. As we work on building some new tools to help me expand my brand and drive this new direction, I get homework from her after each session. This week’s homework asks a question I’ve only vaguely given
I get to choose if I should work in a familiar or unfamiliar setting. For a long time, I really, really wanted to write a sci-fi epic. Nothing stuck in my mind to drive it. As a pantser (one who writes by the seat of their pants), I never had that flash of, “yes, this!” hit me. Until it did. One throw-away theory I read about the work of another creator sparked an idea for
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