Some of y’all may have noticed that I am slogging along in this current novel-in-progress with all the enthusiasm of a root canal.  It’s been HARD, people.  I’ve got 50,000 words or so and most of them are CRAP.

Now, I’m used to this.  There are always times when a novel feel like crap as [...]

This is the story of my life.

Start Keep going. You think you’re starting to get the hang of it. You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery. Keep going. Keep going. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now. You don’t. Keep going. You ask for someone else’s opinion — their [...]

I woke up at 2:30 this morning and couldn’t sleep and I knew exactly why.  It was time.  No more dilly dallying.  Time to do the last little bit and finish the god-bless-it novel.

Which I did.  Finish it, I mean.  At 5am, today, this the last day of 2010.

That’s right! I’M DONE! Novel [...]

I’m blaming it on the sun.  The lack of it, that is.  These dark days and freakishly cold weather (it’s not even 30 degrees out there, at 1 in the afternoon, in freaking North Carolina, what is up with the weather fairies???) are putting a blight on my routines.  It’s all their fault.

What’s my [...]

Or, how one compulsive lunatic writer reads a good book.

First time through—binge reading.  A purely emotional ride.  See previous post.

If the book is worthy, that is, if I can’t stop thinking about it, it gets a second time through.  With this read, I find I start making obscure notes on the back of [...]