Category Archives: Writing
Novel 2: Good News
Just a quick, later at night than usual post to let you know that maybe, just maybe I have found a route to recovery for Novel 2. It’s difficult to describe the nature of my progress without giving away plot elements, and I am not ready to do that publicly yet. Add to that the …
Blockbuster Fatigue
Guess what? My first novel, Flowers for Dionysus will not, in all likelihood, blow your mind into the next galaxy. Why would I say this? Have I not learned in all of my research that saying something like that could kill my chances of ever getting the novel published traditionally? After all, what agent in their right …
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 …
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, …
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 