Category: About Writing
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The Opening Of My Next Novel
At the risk of showing off my underwear, here’s the first two hundred words of my next book. It was time to die. She hadn’t had an idea in the longest while, and so it was time to die. Plus, the clock had stopped. It used to tick, she knew that. And she knew it…
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What You Find On A Writer’s Desk
More procrastination here, with a video expose of all the wonderful things that sit on my desk to distract me when I should be writing instead. It may need to be unmuted. If you’re looking at this on Feedly, or another such syndication feed, you might not see the video, so you’ll need to click…
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The Daily Life Of A Writer
Sometimes, a writer must procrastinate. And the modern world provides too many distractions from work. So I took it upon myself to combine the need to write, with the need to arse about on Facebook. This is the story of that decision.
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Writing Can Make You Feel Better
If I go a day without writing, I feel bad. I’m grumpy, non-communicative, and somewhat lethargic. The way some writers talk, you’d be forgiven for thinking that writing is the bane of their lives, and it probably is. It’s like exercise. The event itself might be a struggle, but the sense of having done it…
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About Writing: Add More Spiders
Sometimes your main character has to do something trivial in order to move the plot along. Maybe it’s pick up some papers from the office, or retrieve a vital clue from the trash. If it seems undramatic, then the temptation is to get it over and done with as quickly as possible, like tearing off…
