This blog is focused around the ever-looming and ever-stressful writer’s block. There are people who don’t believe it’s real, but whether you call it writer’s block or just a feeling of being stuck somewhere, we have all experienced the inability to make the creativity happen. Below, we’ll get into some of the ways we can...Read More

Today we are going to talk newsletters because it is a subject that is a great mystery for many of my writer friends. I’m going to be talking about it some because I’m just going through the process of reworking mine. Now my newsletter is not very big. I’ve got like thirty subscribers, however I...Read More

Characterization is telling the reader about characters (or even places). It's the meat and potatoes of the "getting to know you" part of the story, and it can be extremely powerful.Read More

Whether you're writing from first person or third person, you shouldn't write about things your POV character doesn't know. For example, if she doesn't know the person across from her plans to kill her, you shouldn't tell the reader that.Read More

I’ve been gone awhile due to my health, but I’m hopefully back now. I’m going to write once or twice a week until I find my stride again, but I haven’t abandoned the blog. Life has just been distracting me from my work here. So, this particular subject created a hotbed of contention in a...Read More

I recently had a friend contact me about how to develop characters. He was worried all his characters are too much like him, and what he does to divorce them from him turns them into a farce of themselves. This is something writers struggle with, I’m sure, and character development and growth is tough. It’s...Read More

A dear friend of mine recently had an experience at a bardic circle (a musical event where folks sit around a campfire and perform to each other) where a group of semi-professionals who didn’t care that it was someone else’s turn decided to shout her down and sing over her. Now, my friend is a wonderful...Read More

We’ve all felt it. That dreaded, slow, sticky sensation when our inspiration and excitement for a project drains away like the tide, leaving us beached on the unforgiving shores of reality. Yeah, I know, I’m waxing poetic, but we all really do know that feeling. As Jack London infamously said, “You can’t wait for inspiration....Read More

Freelancers, artists, and creatives have this nasty situation where the world thinks we aren’t worth paying because we are “just” artists. I could rant about that for thousands of words, but let’s suffice to say that is utterly and completely absurd. Yes. It’s so absurd it warrants two adverbs. Worse yet, many folks seem to...Read More

There are definitely stupid questions. "Where are my sunglasses?" when I'm wearing them is a stupid question. However, when it comes to writing there are fewer "stupid questions" than we'd think.Read More