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Now at 22k words (not counting 10k that went into the trash) into TSS 2.0!

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It's been a while since I posted, but I see that some people at least have continued to visit everyday. Thanks for that. I've been i...

Giving in to NaNoWriMo.

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I officially signed up for NaNoWriMo last night. Yes, I know I'm half way through the month already, and I've only been writing for ...

Opportunities to write... Are they really that few and far between?

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Lately I've been bemoaning my lack of time. With work and school sucking down minutes and hours like a hungry hamster, it seems like the...
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I've officially started the first draft of a new The Sometimes Sword.

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After converting the existing (straight fantasy) prologue to fit with the current incarnation (urban fantasy), I have completed the first ch...

Converting a draft into a new story.

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I'm going to try and start writing shorter posts, to make it less of a chore for you to read. So here goes. I'm in the first steps...
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Research and Writing.

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Why should writers/authors do research, and what benefits does it have? I'm sure opinions on this subject vary wildly. I wanted to give ...

How we should all be viewing our "first drafts".

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Lately I've been in a funk. Yes, I just used that word. At some point in the last few months, I realized that I don't know myself ...
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Becky's Horror Story.

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Harmon's toe fell off. There it was, sitting on his carpet, while congealing blood slowly leaked out of the stump where his big t...
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I'm radically less interested in Art than I used to be.

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First off, this post is a little disjointed, and I can't be held responsible for bad grammar and spelling. (I wrote it over the course o...
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First, a wonderful little recipe....

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I don't have much time today, but I wanted to share a recipe, then a bit about TSS (my book The Sometimes Sword). As some of you know, I...

Difficulty writing, and what I need to do about it. (Suggestions are welcome.)

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Lately I've been having a hard time sitting down to write. I've written about this before, I know, but it has since become worse, to...
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How I build my characters. (Feel free to use this if you like.)

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I wanted to share what I have been developing over the last couple of weeks (with the help of my wife). Specifically character sheets. Thi...
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NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

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So most of you might know what NaNoWriMo means, but for those of you who don't, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it takes...

I want to hear from you! (Not a survey, trust me.)

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So the whole thing about this blog is that I'm an amateur. I don't know what I'm doing. Like all writers, I'm feeling my way...
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The excitement of a new book, and how I learned from the last one.

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So I briefly posted that I was moving on from The Sometimes Sword, and I wanted to kind of dig in deeper and explain what I'm doing now....