Category Archives: Writing
Writing Under Pressure
I need to get better at writing under pressure. And I don’t mean deadlines. Deadlines are a type of pressure, and I have been meeting deadlines as a writer for years. I’m proud of my record when it comes to that, in fact. The sort of pressure I mean is being able to write under …
Setting As (Changing) Character in Fiction
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m now writing a series of short stories which take place in the same setting as my first novel. (A community playhouse.) I’ll be putting them in a collection and probably self-publishing them like many of my friends have, as a prelude or interest-sparker for the novel. But that’s …
Critique Progress
I can’t say enough about how helpful the comments from the novel review group have been in regards to Flowers for Dionysus We have met only twice so far, each meeting covering about ten thousand words of my novel. Be that as it may, things that have been brought up, praised and suggested have already begun …
Weekend Writer Adventures
That’s where I was for part of Saturday morning. To be honest, I didn’t stay long, as I felt there were some organizational problems with the first time event that hopefully will be solved next year. But this isn’t a review of the festival as a whole. The one panel discussion I went to, (attempting …
Novel Reviews Imminent
Though the timing and structure have not yet been determined, I have decided that I will be submitting the current draft of Flowers for Dionysus to the small novel critique group of which I am a part. “Submitting” is probably overstating it. It’s a group of three other writers, whom I trust, all of whom I …
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