Happy belated Pencil Day!
My friend, confidant, sometime tabletop game designing/spitballing partner, and all-around best bud told me earlier this week that the following day, March 30th...
Category: writing
Oh yeah, I passed 80K words in my novel, BTW…
For all the nail-biting and concern about the idea of how I’d ever possibly get to 80,000 words in my first solid crack at writing a novel–what with...
U.S. pharmaceutical ads be like…
Being in Canada, we get plenty of our entertainment from American sources. Sometimes on TV, that comes via American broadcasters who, of course, run American co...
New writing goal will be met… and smashed
I continue to work on my novel when time allows, my own dumb distractions can get effectively put aside (I’m a writer, so will put my ability to procrasti...
What I read this month
Bit of a light month for reading, oddly, but most of what I’ve gotten to has been enjoyable. ReadGlitch – Laura Martin Started and stoppedSpace Runn...
At a creative crossroads
I’m continuing to toil away at what will be my first novel, but have once again run into the “What exactly am I doing here?” stage. Meaning, i...
Next level wordplay
There are times I’m struck by unexpectedly gorgeous art, be it a photograph or illustration or painting, as well as other arts, like writing. I’m no...
Volume of work begets creativity
I realized ages ago that I come up with the bulk of my creative ideas while working on other material. Not as much sitting and staring out the window (though th...
Whooooa, I’m half way there/ Whoooo-OA!…
I’m happy to announce that on my current, most dedicated attempt to write a novel, I’ve now passed the half-way point of what is seemingly considere...
This is your captain speaking: We’re at 31,000 and climbing.
Yesterday I broke the 31,000 word mark on my novel WIP. It’s not a ton, of course. It’s not even at the half-way point of the 80,000 words that conv...