For the past three months, I’ve been working on an R&R for an agent.
In part this has been to improve my novel’s wordcount.
Category Archives: Writing
Turning Up the Heat on Achieving Progress: My Third-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In
What a difference three months makes.
Or perhaps more accurately, what a difference one week makes.
The Purpose of Writing
Is art—in particular, writing—meant to be representative or aspirational?
On Twitter, where I admittedly spend more time than is probably recommended, the issue of representative vs. aspirational writing comes up often, if not necessarily using these exact terms.
The Enduring Importance of Midpoint Progress: My Second-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In
Starting the Year Off Right When So Much in the World is Still So Wrong: My First-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In
The first quarter of the first full year of the Covid-19 global pandemic is now over.
Setting and achieving your goals during a pandemic is a delicate balance. Always with goal-setting you want to find the sweet spot between ambitious and realistic, between things that will challenge you but you’ll still actually be able to do.
On Drafting Sequels Out of Sequence of Traditional Publishing
Drafts of all three books in my proposed trilogy (and a single sheet of paper to spare!)
Experts are adamant that you shouldn’t do it.
When you’ve written the first book in a series that you want to have traditionally published—or rather a book that has “series potential”, to use the correct querying parlance—they say you absolutely should not write a sequel (or sequels) until the first book is sold.
One Last Remembrance of a Year Best Forgotten: My 2020 Year-End Goals Recap/Accounting
Never was a day planner’s title so unfitting for the year 2020
It seemed to take the better part of a decade, but the year 2020 is finally over.
Indeed, once December hit, the year seemed to make up for its previous glacial progress due to Covid-19, at once jetting by and forcing me to likewise race to try to finish my outstanding resolutions for the year.
Beautiful Things Take Time: My 2021 New Year’s Resolutions
I chose the cover quote of my 2021 planner with extreme care.
This wasn’t just to counteract last year’s wildly inaccurate “Grand Plans” amidst a year that proved to hold anything but for the whole world due to Covid-19.
On Plotting a New Novel By Pantsing It
It was supposed to be a beat sheet I was creating for my next WIP.
I’ve always considered myself a plotter. I’m very fond of pantsing my way through revisions, rewriting a scene five times in quick succession if need be rather than taking the time to outline the most feasible approach.
The Hardest Part of Writing
Writing is hard. No one is going to disagree with that.
Often, writers don’t even know which aspects of writing they struggle with the most; those unknown unknowns of writing, which by nature are that much more difficult to address.
A Frame Around Infinity 