Category Archives: Writing

Last week I talked about goals–something you want to achieve and can control. If you want something, set goals that will help you achieve it, and then make a plan that will make you meet those goals. So how do … Continue reading →

Because it’s getting to be resolution time, and time for me to set my writing goals for the next year, I wanted to talk about dreams versus goals. I see a lot of people (probably not you) who declare that … Continue reading →

Last week, Pat Wrede posted about college majors and degrees for writers. This is a topic I always find interesting to read about, despite my not having any experience with being in school as a fiction writer–or maybe because it’s … Continue reading →

Congrats to those of you finishing Nanowrimo today! For a while now I’ve been tracking my writing time (and writing a program to analyze it, the results of which I’ll discuss I ever finish it (this is a programming exercise … Continue reading →

So I wrote this book. It’s an urban fantasy. Most of what I like to write and read is secondary-world fantasy (I’m not going to split hairs between epic, heroic, and sword and sorcery). I had fun writing it–got to … Continue reading →

Good luck to those of you writing madly this year. Once again I won’t be joining you. Although I had fun the two years I did it, and would enjoy doing it again, there’s a reason I’ve never done anything … Continue reading →

I am not into conlangs. I find the idea interesting, but not enough to spend time on it. However, most of the stories I write are set in other worlds, where it’s useful to have a few words of a … Continue reading →

Over the weekend we had a (very) brief discussion of passive voice vs passive language. Passive voice is an actual grammar thing, whereas passive language has more to do with style. I didn’t find much about it in my googling, … Continue reading →

Back in March, I mentioned that I’d been doing weekly writing exercises. Well, like most things that I don’t actually schedule a time slot for, I started procrastinating and then lost the habit. But a couple weeks ago I decided … Continue reading →

I used to detest revising books. Now that I’ve had more practice at it, I still dislike it. It just drags on and on and on… So I was thinking about ways to make the process more efficient so it … Continue reading →