What do I do when I don't want to write? I write anyway.
Category: Business of Writing
Taking It Like a Champ
My tips on being edited
Fortitude
What it takes to be a professional writer.
The Future
A review of 2024; a preview of 2025.
I sold a book and that’s a big deal
But probably not for the reason you think.
Automated Idiocy
In The Tommyknockers, by Stephen King, main character Bobbi, under influence of the mysterious object she finds on her property, starts inventing some outlandish devices. One of these devices is sort of a telepathically run typewriter, an invention that allows Bobbi, a writer of Wild West novels, to write a new novel in just a … Continue reading Automated Idiocy
Minimum work ethic
The article discusses the balance between waiting for inspiration and the discipline of daily writing.
New Page: 13 Words
The writer struggled with maintaining a blog but found inspiration in crafting 13-word horror stories, drawing from their love of poetry and disciplined writing.
Update to Clean Freak
Author Sean Davis writes about his novel Clean Freak going out of print due to a publisher's business model change. He reflects on the book's tumultuous publishing journey and how he coped with related mental health struggles. Davis mentions the hope for future reprints and the opportunity to tell new stories, coming to the realization that his success doesn't hinge on this one book.
An experiment in publishing
Rather than talk about how I developed this story from an idea I jotted in my notebook under the working title, "Mirror Mad," I'm going to go through the thought process behind my decision to publish this story on Kindle myself, and what that process was actually like.