A funny thing happened last week. As anyone who actually read this thing knows, I threw up a story that I had abandoned (it was obviously unfinished as I hadn’t even picked last names for some of the characters). Oddly enough, that story skyrocketed my views, as evidenced by the […]
So, now that I do writing as a “job” (I haven’t been paid for it yet, so it’s hard to use the J word here), my free time can be spent on other pursuits. One of my bigger free-time activities is playing Dungeons and Dragons with my college buddies. We […]
So, Mariah has been getting on my case about this blog, and she is so totally right that it’s almost unfair. Of course, she’s my wife, so she’s nearly always right, but that’s not the point. When I started this blog, I had intended to post about writing in all of […]
One of my goals is to make the tools I’m using a regular topic of these blog posts. So, to kick that off, I’m going to talk about the tool which has inspired this leap in the first place: Writing Excuses. Writing Excuses is a podcast hosted by Brandon Sanderson, Mary […]
One of the things which has really stuck with me is Brandon Sanderson saying that good writing is about practice. According to him, just like any skill, becoming good is just a matter of continual practice practice practice. This is unsurprising given that writing, like anything else, is just a […]
So, there’s always a bit of hesitancy when it comes to the first words on the page. After all, these are going to be the first words most readers will see, so they need to have the appropriate amount of gravitas. Well, at least, that’s true for a story. Fortunately, […]
