A New Take on Terrible Advice: ‘Write Drunk, Edit Sober’
“Write Drunk, Edit Sober.” ~ Source Up For Debate Everyone is given this advice at least once when they start on the authorial path. It’s become a cliched right-of-passage, usually passed along by some dude-bro at one social function…
Before it is Anything Else, Writing is Work
I started writing with the absolute certainty that I would earn both fame and fortune. Such fantastic visions of success were only possible because of my blithering ignorance, of course For three years now, life and the publishing industry have…
Write the Weird and Wonderful Stories of Your Secret Heart
My favorite writing to date is a story I wrote about giant bears fighting robots. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. I wrote a story about bear/man hybrids battling against the ruins of humanity who piloted giant mechs in the…
Start Making Hay Now, Because the Sun Won’t Always be Shining
“Whan the sunne shinth make hay. Whiche is to say.Take time whan time cometh, lest time steale away.” …
Making Words From the Daily Grind
Life is tiny stretches of complete terror bookended by long stretches of unimaginable banality. How does any facet of our lives make sense? We climb into cars we hate to drive to a place we distinctly don’t wish to be,…
You are the Time Lord of Your Manuscript
My story does not have a beginning. That did not stop me from writing the middle of it last night. I’d been working on the scene in my head for days now. It finally came together as I was working…
A Stroll Through the Desert.
Many moons ago, I read a snarky article on what was required to become an author. It state that to be an author you needed one of three things: To be famous for something else, to be rich, or to…