From the outside, the writing life is a glamorous one. Speaking engagements all around the world with free airfare and hotel, adoring fans fawning on every word you utter, plenty of money for you to live quite comfortably while you scribble away over at the coffee shop everyday. And oh… how wonderful must it be…
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Writing Life Comic #4: Ideas
Ideas, and no more ideas? If I had a dollar for every time this happened to me I’d be giving my books away and living like J.K. Rowling! Many (most) writers are part-time scribblers and part-time something elsers. Ideas seem to fall from the sky at an alarming rate while I’m working on that something else. I…
Writing Life Comic #3: Writers Boulders
Somewhere roughly about the midpoint of a novel life really begins to suck for a writer. You would think that being a plotter would help with this, but, you’d be wrong. Middles are simply shitty places to be. I think if a novel could be written without a middle all of us would do it….
Writing Life Comic #2: Writing is Dangerous
Writers may not always be writing, but they are always working. Last winter I took a vacation to Puerto Rico and I spent a considerable amount of time of every activity considering how/if/when it might be used in a story. In Across the Darkling Sea (releasing in April 2016!) an entire chapter of that book…