The muse can be a real pain in the butt. When I am writing in the wrong direction I get slapped around pretty well. I can’t write with flow, nothing is clear, and the story, well… if you spent some time in this section of the blog, you have to pretty much know it wasn’t going well.

Why this chapter now, and why no chapter number?
The placement of this chapter isn’t known yet. As the chapters develop I am sure it will become clear to me when this information finds its place in the novel. I provide it to you so you understand some essential motivations for Richard’s actions. If you have thoughts on when this should pop up as we write, I would love to hear your thoughts.

When I started writing Jane, I had some extra motivation and a few role models.  I didn’t want to get on the other side of a lawsuit so I made some creative adjustments to her attributes, behaviors and tried like hell to make her SO bad, that no one could accuse me of basing her [...]

More notes on writing Intervention the novel….
Claiming to fly by the seat of the pants doesn’t seem accurate when I am writing a novel while using a screen play for a road map to a story, but it is amazing how much things seem to change when you switch from a screenplay to a novel.  [...]

Writer Boy had plotted his “best offense ever” against the evil nemesis Captain Attention Deficit Disorder aka the CADD… aka… Captain Disorder.
For years Captain Disorder had been having his way with Writer Boy’s novel aspirations.  Certainly the finishing of the Dead Play novel by Writer Boy had put the Captain in a nasty mood and [...]

So many ways to write; so many theories, tools, tricks, software, concepts and almost none of them create the necessary motivation to keep writing when you are doing it from home.  Oh sure, I know that when I was in college and law school, it was easy to use my writing to avoid my homework.  [...]