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Keeping Language Alive

I love words. I love experimenting with them. My favorite author is E.A. Poe because he uses familiar words in ways I […]

Writers don’t read we study. We learn the craft by analyzing what’s been done before. I read this often when I was […]

Picturing the when of my story has become complicated or maybe I’m making it more complicated than it actually is. Every event […]

I know naming comes with the job description but man, is it difficult. It’s harder than writing the story and editing it. […]

Whenever I read or watch fantasy, I’m always impressed with the names; whether it’s a character, a race of creatures or a […]

As I said in Novel Planning, I’d no desire to turn any story into a series but then I thought about it. […]

I’m terrified of losing a copy of any one of my stories so, along with saving them on my computer, an external […]

So where do my story ideas come from? Everywhere is the most obvious answer and it’s true, but I’d like to be […]

Awhile ago, I lost sight of what I said in the post Why I write. Writing stopped being therapeutic. It felt far […]

(I’ve been so focused on school, graduation and working on my novel that I totally neglected my blog this week. I need […]