Five Weak Words that Make Your Writing Less Effective by Jeff Goins http://goinswriter.com/weak-words/ I just read this article on his blog and it was a great article. It identifies words that make your work weak and tells you why. I must admit that I have used these words before. Who hasn’t? But, I plan to…
My book Dead Awakenings has begun to generate a small amount of buzz with a few people in the entertainment industry. Now before we all get too excited, it was just a few. And they want to see a script. Uh…yeah… Oh! And did I mention they want to see it in the next thirty…
When I first heard the idea from a friend, four years ago, about a book premise that publishers said they were looking for, I was intrigued. For days it sat in my mind, like a small flickering ember. I tried and tried to blow on it and make it grow. But it didn’t work. Finally…
There is a great website called Screenwriting University. They have tons of free seminars and online help for writers in general, not just screen writers. Today on their Facebook page they posted a link to a new segment called How to writer a deeper scene, even if it is talking heads. by Hal Croasman. It is a…
So as I am on the latest draft of my book Dead Awakenings. I am focusing solely on the editing factor this time. My great friend and fellow author Darin Calhoun, has turned me onto three websites that I find to be extremely helpful in editing. 1) Grammarly.com Grammarly has been a wonderful and in depth website that has…
In my world scientists come in only one variety. Mad. As I think of a scientist, I think of a man with crazy red hair and a white lab coat, pouring bubbling mixtures from beaker to beaker waiting for color changes and eventual explosions. Yup! That’s me. (insert evil cackle) However, This was a very…
As I sit listening to the wails of my three year old, who is most despondent from having been told he must clean his room or suffer the execution of his toys into the eternal bid of waste, I think about the cuts I just made to my novel Breeders. I am struck by the fact that…
Well, I did it. I didn’t think I would, but I have. I have made my first real, big, deep cut into my book Dead Awakenings. It was painful, and nauseating, just think the first incision of surgery can make me queasy. But, I think, that just like when I watch medical dramas, or real…
I am hoping that the fact that my brain is tired of reading my book Dead Awakening, and my eyes burn from scanning for grammatical errors, means that I am close to finishing with my editing. But I am terrified that it is just my brain and eyes resigning themselves to the fact that they…
It is official! The Changling has finished taking root in my brain. Yesterday morning, it was simply a thought. Then it became a tangible baby seed that rooted and rolled around in my brain all day waiting to find a soft spot that it could root into. By midnight last night, it found it’s soft spot and ever…
