I love Bentley Little’s writing style but I don’t know how I feel about The Disappearance. It was entertaining. At some points, I was so into it I couldn’t put it down. The story was fairly well-written. (Little is a great writer after all.) But, it was so different from his other books. It didn’t…
Writers don’t read we study. We learn the craft by analyzing what’s been done before. I read this often when I was first learning to write but never how do this. I, eventually, learned how to pick a story apart through my literature classes as an undergrad. So, to hopefully save you some confusion, I…
You have your first novel in mind and all you want to do is buy truckloads of books on writing. I know you’re excited but put the books down and step away from the Writing Reference section. Restrain yourself If you start buying writing books with no clear direction you’d end up with some you’d…
Picturing the when of my story has become complicated or maybe I’m making it more complicated than it actually is. Every event is set but I can’t see them in any sort of order. I tried to write them out list form but it didn’t help. So, I tried another approach. I never wrote down…
I know naming comes with the job description but man, is it difficult. It’s harder than writing the story and editing it. When creating a world, you sometimes need a new name for everything- cities, villages, races, stores, houses, rooms, professions- everything. On top of that, you can’t name your characters something normal without a…
I signed up for YouTube just for the fun of it. I posted a few videos and subscribed to a few channels including Simon & Schuster, GameSpot, Nintendo 3DS and Capcom because it could but, I never checked them or logged-on regularly. I don’t even remember by password. Fortunately, I can sign in through Google….
As I said in Into the Unknown, I’ve been searching for a full-time job. You’d think after hearing all the doom and gloom people keep spewing about the job market, I’d be frightened or, at the very least, worried but, I’m not and I have every reason to be. As an undergraduate, I’d apply for…
I went into this story with a simple idea. A boss gives a picture of a female to a witch who he kept imprisoned in his basement. The witch drops the picture in a steaming cauldron putting a spell on the women in the photo. The women is driven to put herself into life threatening…
Today was supposed to be the first time I voted in New York so, I was nervous but excited. I participated in the last 2 presidential elections but was registered in DC, which is not a state. Voting in NY is a whole different animal. Visiting the Board of Elections in the City of New…
In case you missed Obama’s Job Plan speech last night, you can watch it here. It was very well done; presented in terms everyone can understand. The American Jobs Act is a brilliant idea and sounds like the Obama Administration put a lot of thought and research into it. I wonder if people will tear…
