and everything else in sight
If you’re a writer like me, you like to take on challenges and overcome them. Just look at #nanowrimo, am I right? (I fell on my face for two weeks after that one, but YMMV.) Well, here’s a creative challenge that doesn’t stuff it all into one month: let’s write one story per week in
Revision is my arch-nemesis, and also essential to achieving professional quality–apparently. Fine, fine. It’s true. None of my first drafts are publishable. Some come close to being good, and possess raw energy that the following drafts lack, but that worked in my favor much more when writing fan fiction than it does for original. And,
How to use Scrivener for worldbuilding–and a lot of other things, incidentally–is the first in a line of what I’ll call “The Basics.” Generally, what I’m interested in writing about is a bit farther down the line of writing craft, but if somebody new to writing visits my blog, I want to have articles to
Meeting my own writing goals has always been difficult. Deadlines are easy when somebody else is driving me–my job, my grades, my reputation–but difficult to respect when those forces are absent, in my experience. Fear of consequences is an effective motivator. That’s where public accountability enters the equation. By stating my goals out loud, I