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Professional Wednesday: Dealing With the Slog, part II — The 60% Stall
Many years back, while I was working on one of the middle books in my Winds of the Forelands quintet, my second series, I came downstairs after a particularly frustrating day of writing and started...
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Professional Wednesday: Listening To My Own Work
About seven years ago, I received out of the blue, an email from the actor Bronson Pinchot, who is probably best known for playing the role of “Balki” in the sitcom Perfect Strangers. He was, by then,...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: One Hot-Mess of a Writing Post
Dispensing writing advice when one is struggling a bit with one’s own work can be somewhat strange. Just ask . . . well, me. I am more than 50,000 words into my current work-in-progress, the third book...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: What To Tell Aspiring Writers About The Current...
If we have to write — and I’ve always felt that writing is an imperative, something I do to tame the voices in my head, the stories burning in my heart — then we should do it to satisfy that passion....
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Professional Wednesday: Once More Unto The Breach — To Outline or Not, Redux
After attending DragonCon and speaking on panels about various aspects of writing, I have found myself thinking—yet again—about the age-old debate between those who outline their books and those who...
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Monday Musings: Thoughts on Parenting
There is a great scene in the third Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Indy (Harrison Ford) and his father (Sean Connery) discuss their relationship aboard a blimp...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: An Alternative to NaNoWriMo
First off, many thanks to those who offered feedback on last week’s post, in which I asked for input regarding what I might work on next. I appreciate your thoughts. The general consensus appears to be...
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Professional Wednesday: What I Learned During a Recent Visit With Claude Monet
Last week, Nancy and I were traveling for her work, and we had the opportunity to spend a day and a half in New York City. We had dinners with our older daughter, we attended some university functions,...
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Professional Wednesday: What Matters In Your Work? Part I
On Monday, I began what will be a series of posts on the things that matter to us, and the ways in which we can make them central to our lives. Not surprisingly, I think about this a great deal with...
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Professional Wednesday: What Holds Me Back, part I — Life Issues
As we turn the calendar to March, I thought I would turn to a new series of posts in my Professional Wednesday feature. This month, as I struggle with a bit of work-related inertia, I have decided some...
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Professional Wednesday: What Holds Me Back, part II — Building a Platform
Last week, I started my newest series for the Professional Wednesday feature: “What Holds Me Back.” My first entry was on life in general, and the ways in which we learn to cope with life’s intrusions...
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Monday Musings: Joni Mitchell and the Creative Journey
Recently, I have been reading a biography of Joni Mitchell (a holiday gift from my older daughter), a long-time favorite of mine and, in my opinion, the finest songwriter in the history of rock and...
View ArticleMonday Musings: AI Content Creation? No, Thanks
I’ll start by assuring you that this is not one of those posts. I’m not going to share my feelings regarding AI generated content and then reveal at the very end of the post that everything you’ve read...
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