There are lots of reasons to get stopped in your writing process.  Some are terrible, some are pretty good, and some are great reasons.  In my humble opinion, none of the reasons is good enough to keep a true writer down for more than a bit.  The amount of down time is directly correlated to the severity of the reason for stopping. 

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About Writing

– Miss Write – "Rethink These Writing Myths"

- Gargantua Stormcaller – "Ten Pitfalls of Fanfiction”

- Tammy Searles – "Writers who are also photographers"

Fiction – Jenn – "An Unexpected Independence Day Celebration"

Poetry – Matthew S. Urdan – "Circles"

Some days you ask a question, expecting it to never be answered and the next day, BAM the answer hits you right between the eyes.  I have (along with my occasionally smart mouthed and very smart webgoddess/ procrastinating editor) been working this blog for about 2.5 months.  I make it really about 2 months of [...]

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Before being snagged into married life he had always been Richard, not Dick.  It wasn’t until he met his wife Jane that he had been renamed.  The renaming had happened almost moments after he met her.  Even now he wasn’t sure [...]

The Risk of Reading While Writing

I wonder if it is any other writer but me.  What I read impacts what I write.  It seems like the voices in my head give just a bit of an accent to my writing.  It feels like spending a few months in England, the patterns, tones, turns of phrase [...]

(How I get killer visualizations and shorter more cohesive story lines)
As you might have guessed (if you have read any of my other posts) I just ain’t normal. Ask my Mom, Ex-wife, Professors, and most anyone who knows me, I definitely do things differently. On the upside to that, I [...]

The pressure was on again, I thought is was about it being time to write… another blog post. Sure, I could procrastinate a bit if I wanted. I was three posts ahead, more than plenty of space for most writers, maybe too much more. I didn’t have time pressure. I didn’t have [...]

How to make Readers throw your book, THAT’S A GOOD THING Everyone writes for different reasons, I have at least one reason for each voice in my head. (Come on writers, you know about the voices in your head.) Each author has a favorite reason to write. My favorite involves a [...]

Writing teaches me.  Not the things you would imagine it teaches me.  Not better grammar or spelling, just ask my first draft readers.  Not about story structure, that happens mostly when I am putting together the puzzle that ends up being my final work.

“Intervention” is a suspense thriller. In the vein of: “Fatal Attraction” but the wife is the fatal attraction for the husband. Intervention follows a naïve, devoted husband and his social climbing, socio-pathic wife, as the husband comes to grip with the fact that his wife wants to murder him so she can run [...]

Eddie glowered back and said, “Slow down or you’ll choke and I don’t want to have to get up to save you again.”
Candy took a seat and stared at the television casting a disapproving eye at the tramps tossing their lives open for a few minutes of celebrity.  She said, “Don’t bother saving me.  It [...]

@@@ and a half at-a-boys
Theasauraus. A good one is harder to find than it is to even spell it
Word up! (Apologies to my urban buddies). Word (the Microsoft Office affliated product) sucks in the thesaurus department, they didn’t even bother to put some of Microsoft’s or Apple’s own terminology in there, but this isn’t [...]

Save the Cat, Software and Book – @@@@@ at-a-boys

I am going to age myself here. I have been using computers since monitors had back ground screens that were black and letters that were either gold or green flashing dots. I remember when Word Perfect (it was NOT perfect but it did do words) had that really odd blue (Click on title to read entire post.)

Who but a writer could do this thing; talk about an art and craft as if he or she had any knowledge whatsoever about that most mercurial of things, the using the written word to express and emote; who but critics, who are, in a Satanist sort of manner, writers in and of themselves.  It [...]

The lights in Victoria Duncan’s apartment flickered as the tempestuous storm slashed across the sound…

The first moments of her return to Seattle were Sara Cage’s worst, at least until the murder. After what had happened the last time she had been in the Emerald City, she’d had her doubts about venturing back. But, Seattle felt like her destiny, like she had left something important undone.

In the coffee dark fetish scene of Seattle, lives collide in the twisted and fast paced world of submission, domination and private justice. The collisions accelerate for those in orbit around two strong women; one a protector, one a hunter. Victoria Duncan, her law enforcement career crushed by her ambitious ex-husband, faithfully serves and protects [...]