Author Archive: tyunglebower
Motivation As Opposed to Inspiration
It’s no secret that reading books, watching movies, conversation, and just good old-fashioned people watching can help writers spark ideas for their work. One never knows when that argument you hear in line at Starbuck’s will give birth to a central scene in your next novel. Sitting at the county fair will spark inspiration for …
Social Introverts MeetUp
I’ve thought about it for a while, and the other day I finally did it. I invested in starting my own MeetUp group. I call it Social Introverts of Frederick County. It’s only been up for a few days, and I am the only member thus far. I am hoping that a handful of local …
More Novel 2 Blues
How do I solve a problem like Novel 2? The sage I’ve gone through trying to make this novel happen would probably make a half-way decent novel in its own right. (Though I won’t be writing that!) If you have followed the blog you know what I’m talking about. As per my normal writing process, …
Update This.
Updates, whether to information, hardware, software or procedures or important, I suppose. Especially when an overall improvement is made. But I’m the type of person that will trade some degree of efficiency for familiarity. I’m not a Luddite. I use technology. I’m not in most aspects conservative. I tend to be open to new ideas, …
Is “Death” Cliche’?
Sometimes in the world of fiction, I think it may be. Now don’t get me wrong, on occasion I have written death into my stories. (Though probably not as often as some would say I should.) Few people like to think about death. I am not one of them. Yet squeamishness and fear are not …
Ty Unglebower 