Keeping It Real
March 8, 2012 by
I was talking to a friend the other day, complaining about a fact I needed to check for my WIP and trying to decide how to dig out the information. She said, “Why do you care? Why don’t you just make it up?” I said something about fiction needing to be grounded in reality, but […]
The Muse Bulks Up
March 6, 2012 by
*drip* *drip* *creeeeeeeaaaaaak* Wow, it’s really dark and empty in here. *Betsy looks around her brain* *scitter, scatter* *jumps* What’s that?!?!?! Oh! Oh, it’s the video game I just finished. Whew. *Betsy walks a little further into her brain* *footsteps echo* Boy. This is kind of creepy. I should probably go read […]
Reading A Lot
March 4, 2012 by
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King, On Writing As always, I bow to Mr. King’s expert advice in his book On Writing. And I […]
The Unkindest Cut
March 1, 2012 by
I had the day off today. I thought that I would spend the day thinking deep thoughts and writing glorious prose. Instead I spent it going through paperwork for my taxes and playing Mahjong. Ah well. The best laid plans. But then I found myself at the end of the day having written neither […]
