Category Archives: Writing
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 …
What’s On Deck?
It’s All-Star week in Major League Baseball, so I titled this post accordingly. But it wasn’t random. This post is about what’s on deck for me as writer. (That is to say, what am I working on next.) It seems like a good place to lay out a plan, what with my first novel having …
End of a Critique
Tonight I will attend the eighth and final weekly meeting of the small group critiquing my novel. The process is of course not officially over until tonight, but I write Thursday afternoon blog posts, so this will have to do. It has been a thoroughly rewarding experience. With all do respect to people who claim …
Ty Unglebower 