By Aaron Ritchey January, 2015, and ‘tis the season to set goals. I’m a poor goal-setter because I set too many goals. I have completely unrealistic expectations, and when I don’t achieve my goals I sulk and contemplate genocide. Go big or go home…that’s what I say. Either I’m successful or humanity dies! But all…
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What’s Your Plan for 2015?
Time is not linear for me. It expands and shrinks according to its own irrational whims, and if I don’t pay attention I’ll suddenly look at a calendar and it will be November and I won’t have moved any closer to my ultimate writing career goals.
Angsting Through the Walls
I do it every damn time. I keep thinking one of these days I’ll learn, but I never seem to. In every single book, I hit a point where I’m completely and utterly convinced that it’s terrible. That THIS one is the book I’ll have to pull the plug on and admit to failure. It…
Adventures in Genre Writing Lesson Six: Dialogue
Dialogue – Putting Words in Your Characters’ Mouths By Jeanne C. Stein Last month we looked at plotting and defining our inciting incident. In this lesson we’ll touch on one of the most important building blocks in writing: Dialogue. There are lots of authors who excel at dialogue, but none better than mystery writer, the…
Setting Smart Goals for 2015
By Liesa Malik New Year’s Resolutions. Bah, humbug, right? The whole practice of writing down what amount to goals that seem firmer just by calling them “resolutions” can be intimidating and defeatist. Me? I’ve always liked this clean-slate time of year. At least for a week or so I haven’t goofed up my brand new…