I just finished a book and went through my usual ritual of cleaning my office while mourning a little for the characters who have been such a large part of my life the last year. Now it’s time to start the next book. In the past, my first consideration would be the market: What book…
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How Busy is Too Busy?
For writers, and most other people, this is an individual question. How many things you work into your schedule, and how much time you choose to spend not writing, is predicated by your life and will never be like anyone else’s. If you’re like Corrine O’Flynn, the coordinator for the Colorado Gold Conference, you must…
The Big Wait: What to do when you have nothing to do
So here we are. As of the writing of this post, I’ve found myself in a strange place. Limbo, some call it. That place of infinite waiting caught inexorably between supposed and longed for happiness, and that of dejection, unrequited feelings of elation and acceptance. “But Josh,” you may say, as I place these words in your mouth by…
Spring! Time for cloud-watching!
Puffy white cyber-sites feed creativity Ah, spring—longer days, warmer temperatures. I strive to invest my BICHOK (butt-in-chair-hands-on-keyboard) time daily, but there are times my brain wants to get off the gerbil wheel of word quotas and plots and marketing, and put in some time just staring at the clouds. There are “clouds” of sorts on…
Rocky Mountain Writer #82
Margaret Mizushima & The Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series It’s been about 17 months since we had Margaret Mizushima on the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, way back on episode number 23. At the time, her debut novel Killing Trail was a few weeks from publication and the buzz was just building for the Timber Creek…