Tag Archive: writing
My Writing Process For Fiction 2016
Having a solid process for writing has made all the difference. It’s not perfect, but I humbly share my own writing process.
Why Do I Write?
As I start this blog, and before I talk about what it is that I’m writing, I thought it might make sense to put down a few thoughts.
Or, Start With a World
In my last article I explained how I usually start with a character and then move toward the world. But I don’t always follow that to the letter. Sometimes you have a world in need of a character. This is how I personally handle that setup.
It’s Okay To Write Strange Characters
This is my second time watching the Doomsday Preppers series. There’s a whole lot that I could say about it, but the one thing that stands out is how completely blind we are to our own biases and oddities.
The Imaginary Interview
As we were driving home from Disney World I thought to myself, “how could I land a job writing for Disney?” My wife and daughter were both zonked out as I drove into the late hours, and that gave me about four hours to think.
Character Design: Writing Consistent Characters
One of my biggest pet-peeves in stories is the use of a character to drive the plot the wrong way. You’ll notice it from time to time, if you’re watching for it. It goes like this: an author writes a character one way for the majority of the plot, then, they just change that character. It throws the character under the bus.
Terrible Plot, Critique, and Taking Advice
Sometimes the things we write aren’t perfect and we need a different perspective.
Similarity in Writing. Or, “How Close is Too Close?”
In a previous article, I encroached on the concept of encroaching on someone else’s story. (That last bit about the cave and the coin.) And I thought it might be worth a followup about the theme of similarity.
A Ghostwriter, Ghostwriting Ghosts
A few thoughts about why I write, and why hiring a ghostwriter isn’t a thing I do.
