Something’s been bugging me for a while now. It was something I could define, but couldn’t make into a concise statement. Thanks to the first minute and a half of Terminator: Dark Fate, I can now sum it up in a single statement. Too many creative ventures, especially movies and television, keep ‘shotgunning John’.
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The Exhaustive Lessons from Query Shark
I have spoken at length about Janet Reid and her Query Shark blog in the past. You can read that…
Continue reading →NaNoWriMo 2016
If you’ve read this blog at all around this time of year, you’ll know that I am not a huge…
Continue reading →NaNoWriMo 2015
My opinions on NaNoWriMo are well documented here on the blog. Go ahead and do it. It helps a lot…
Continue reading →The Write Tools: Keep Me Out
If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you’ll know that social media isn’t something that holds my attention…
Continue reading →The 10/30 Rule
If you look at the number where most authors begin to break away from the flood of other writers, you…
Continue reading →Being Quotable
This is a topic I had on my roster to address today, but it seems that David Farland has also…
Continue reading →The Write Tools: Grammarly
So I have been testing to see how I feel about the free version of Grammarly and I have to…
Continue reading →Success vs Fame
Way too many writers dream about being famous and get so frustrated after a book or two that they just…
Continue reading →Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You might have heard of this book by Nietzsche, or if not then you’ve at least heard the quote “God…
Continue reading →Universal Truths: Critics
Did you think you were immune? Sorry to say it, but if you don’t meet criticism, it means you are…
Continue reading →The Danger of Early Success
I, among others, will often remind you not to expect fame, fortune, best sellers or anything else when you first…
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