Category Archives: Writing
Progress Report: Novel Number One
This month I will begin the fourth draft of my novel, Flowers for Dionysus. I have kept mental distance from it for the last few months since I finished the third draft, and sent it to a few test readers. (Most of whom have not progressed with it as quickly as I had been led to …
No Olympics for Writers
The Games of the 30th Olympiad in London, United Kingdom are underway. It has been a tradition in my family to watch the Games since before I was born. Despite NBC’s generally poor coverage, that tradition continues. (As I write this, I have a live broadcast of cross country equestrian on the TV next to me.) The …
Character Counts
Before Friday evening’s rehearsal for Richard III, our director talked to us for a few minutes. She is pleased with our progress and is excited about how the show is already coming together in places. Many of us feel the same way. Yet she shared with us her belief that for the last few days …
Simpatico?
I sometimes worry about how little I seem to relate to other writers. I’m in a writing group now that I quite enjoy. I like those folks as people. I tweet things about writing fiction and naturally here on the blog I discuss the same thing. Much of what I say, if not read by …
Where in the World Are Ty’s Characters?
A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with another writer. The topic turned to settings for our stories. My novel came up and I mentioned that I had started out with the intention to set the story in a real town near where I live. I mentioned however that soon after I started …
