Characters: Writing The Opposite Gender
I was a psychology major in college and have always had an interest in the subject, so when I see friends post articles involving explanations of behavior (even though most […]
Readers: Prejudice And Misinterpretation
You spend months, maybe years, creating a world and developing a cast of characters. You’re in love with your story and you can’t wait to share it with the world. […]
Life: Playing Catch Up
It seems like whenever I get rolling on a project, something comes along that completely derails me. This time the project is my novel with co-conspirator Lani Woodland and the […]
Bookstores: Lessons You Can Learn
The Strand in NYC I’m still kind of crazy busy right now, so I’m stealing another post I like. This one I found on OpenSalon.com and it’s written by a […]
Writing: Aspiring Isn’t Being
This week is kind of hectic at work, so this post isn’t technically mine. I found this list of 25 Things I Want To Say To So-Called Aspiring Writers on […]
Legalities: A Follow-up
Not too long ago, I wrote a post talking about the power-plays companies like Amazon and PayPal have been making in recent years. This morning I stumbled across more information […]
Writing: Collaboration
People have this image of writing as this solitary art where a writer is locked away in an office or bedroom or within their own head for weeks or months […]
Creativity: Boundless Possibilities And Directed Goals
I grew up in what I like to call the technologically intermediate era. They taught us how to use computers in elementary school even though few of us had one […]
Writing: Getting Unstuck
Sometimes you’re not blocked so much as stuck. For example, I have about twenty-five different novel projects because random bits of dialogue and setting pop into my head, but only […]
Technology: Digital Power Plays
Have you ever met someone so sure of their own power over the world around them they could hold up their hand to block the sun and swear they’d created […]
News: The Best Kind!
Yesterday, I got an incredible phone call. I entered two novel contests in January and the coordinator for one of them informed me yesterday that I’m a finalist! This is […]
Publishing: More Opinions
Today was a busy day, so I didn’t have the time to get something up here. Still don’t actually. So instead, I’m going to link to two articles you may […]
Talent: The Indescribable Something
When in full bloom, talent is a beautiful thing to behold. When squandered or lost, the tragedy feels almost insurmountable. Despite this, we don’t know much about how or why […]
Publishing: The Traditional Defense Part Four
Before even beginning his final post defending traditional publishing, Steve Laube calls part five boring. Personally, I disagree. For people not already involved in the industry, the information presented here […]
Publishing: The Traditional Defense Part Three
Continuing my posts from last week (part one and part two), today I’m looking at Steve Laube’s Defense of Traditional Publishing Part Four: Design. While cover design is a crucial […]