The generous and talented Brenda Drake has teamed up with Weronika Janczuk of the DFEO Literary Agency to create a cool contest about first lines. I’ve decided to toss my hat into the ring, so without further adieu here’s the first line from The Bleeding Cure, my current horror WIP: Real friends are up for […]
Over at his site (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=3204), the very wise Dean Wesley Smith laid down some math that spoke to the old RPG freelancer in me with its very simple formula: The number of words you write has a direct effect on the amount of money you make. When I was cranking out tens of thousands of […]
For the past six years, I’ve been enrolled in a grueling court reporting night school course, on top of working on a couple of novels, on top of a more-than full-time job that had me regularly working 60 hour weeks over the last couple of years. It was a horrible period of my life, marked […]
Follow these quick tips to protect yourself from the burden of too many of the wrong tools for your writing.
Once upon a time, I was a full-time writer. It was stressful, exciting, and profitable for quite a few years. But markets shifted and I made some bad choices that left me working a lot harder for a lot less money than I needed to keep my family afloat. In the end, I shot my writing […]
Three lessons learned in 2010, a NaNoWriMo recap, and some ambitious plans for 2011.