One of the most common excuses you’ll hear from aspiring writers, or that you’ll use yourself, is that there just isn’t enough time in the day to do everything you have to do and still get some writing done. While I’m certainly guilty of blaming my lack of productivity on a busy schedule, I am [...]
There’s Always Time to Write
Filed under Tips & Tools on July 17, 2012
Tagged: schedule, time, writing
Feeling like a writer
Filed under Writing Journal on June 16, 2009
Tagged: fantasy fiction, writing
I write for a living. I spend eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, sitting at a desk writing. I write business requirements, use cases, test cases, and technical documentation. It is a rare occasion that I finish my day feeling like a writer, however. No sense of euphoria or completeness, as though I’d found [...]
Writing fantasy fiction in a recession
Filed under Market Report on February 17, 2009
Tagged: book sales, fantasy fiction, recession, writing
Is an economic recession a bad time to enter the world of writing? Alex Moore asked this great question in her comment to my reaction to a shrinking market. Intrigued, I decided to do a little research. Are books recession-proof? Conventional wisdom suggests that the entertainment-value-to-cost ratio of a book makes it an attractive buy [...]
Why I write fantasy fiction
Filed under Writing Journal on June 3, 2008
Tagged: Eternal Warlords, fantasy fiction, Relvan's Rescue, Shattered Amulet, webcomics, writing
It’s important, from time to time, to stop and do a self-assessment of the direction your life is taking: personally, professionally, spiritually. Are you investing your resources in the areas that you really want to? Are you making progress toward the goals you set six months ago? A year ago? Five years ago? The past [...]
