Aug 16, 2010 | The Writing Life
Welcome back, dear readers, When I was a kid, writing came easy. By the time I hit college, I’d written several full-length novels. As a college student, I finished a 500 page novel during my summer break, in spite of working twelve hour shifts at an answering...
Aug 13, 2010 | The Writing Life
TGIF, dear readers! I’ve never been a fan of books about writing. Reading books about writing always seemed like yet another way to get out of actually writing. Too many people seem to carry the latest self-indulgent tome of some famous author, cover out, as if...
Aug 12, 2010 | The Writing Life
Hello dear readers…I see there are some of you who haven’t disconnected your Inter-Web yet. That’s okay. You can use my ten step program to write that novel whenever you are ready. Since I already wrote about Dr. Frankenstein this week, it seems...
Aug 10, 2010 | The Writing Life
Hello dear readers, When Mary Shelley first told the tale of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Victorian audiences were both horrified and fascinated. But, truth be told, there are hundreds of Dr. Frankensteins around you all the time, quietly bringing equally...
Aug 6, 2010 | The Writing Life
There we were–the playwright, the young adult novelist, the romance writer who’s known to delve into the kinky side of things, and a certain creator of dark supernatural tales. On the surface, it may look like we don’t have a lot in common. But...
Jul 29, 2010 | The Writing Life
Stephen King has said a great many witty, pithy, and all-too-true things about writing…and life. But one of my favorites is this: “If you write, someone will try to make you feel lousy about it.” I’m not sure why, and maybe people in other...
