Tag: Writing
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My Life and How to Find Me
As I’ve dedicated more and more free time to art the universe appears to want to knock me down. I started this post in … April? I had a hard winter, for lots of reasons, mostly health but I started to get back into the swing of things, posting videos, painting, writing. I thought after…
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A Year of Silence (and broken websites)
I didn’t think I would be spending a year trying to fix a website, and yet, here we are. Settle in; this is a long one. At the beginning of 2023, I was still hip-deep in unpacking from my move. Honestly, I was overwhelmed, and while I tried to enter the Portland/Vancouver scene, I found…
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Creating a Fantasy World – Writing Things Down
This isn’t about world building as an end goal. I’m not planning a game system, languages or anything of that type. I’m reverse engineering a world which I’ve had a clear picture in my mind for twenty years. And it’s hard. It’s so easy to just write and let your world get away from you.…
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Sigh… Art, Writing, Screwing Up Blog Posts
Needing to create has brought me here. I’m arting fairly often. At least 2 – 3 projects a week. Practice in between. My writing is still stalled. Kinda. Kinda. I’m working on getting my world into World Anvil. And I’m trying to organize my thoughts. It’s hard. My thoughts have scattered like so many pieces…
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Loosing the Will to Write
It’s hard thing to admit my identity is not so secure. Something that the idea of me has been wrapped up in since the last day of 8th grade. It’s hard to admit it that I haven’t been writing. We’re in year two of that fact. It’s not that I don’t want to. I think…
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The Hero’s Journey is Not the Only Story
The monomyth is all. All hail the monomyth. In the late eighties, just I was reaching the point where I realized I wanted to be a writer, the Hero’s Journey was top of mind. Joseph Campbell’s work of the past several decades had influenced the halls of fantasy and sci fi in ways that gave…
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Rewriting and Revising: A Love Story
About a year ago I reread my first novel. It was horrible. I had just finished Novel 3 and my writing style had changed to a point that I could see the stark differences. Why had agents requested fulls? Why had this made finalist in several competitions? Why had people told me it was good?…
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And So I Twitch
The truth is I pretty much lost it. I want to do things, but as things spiral out of control, even when they are going well, there is no end until you bounce. So, in January, I hit and bounced. Now I understand that this year has been shitty for a lot of people, and…
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What If Not Everything Is True?
I think I’m going to just type here awhile. Why not? It’s just me. Just me reading this. Just me typing. Sometimes that’s not true. Blogging has gotten too personal. Like most things in my life I’m too paralyzed to do. Stay in, be quiet. It’s for the best. Good for me, taking some time…
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Revisions Again and All the Sorrows
I tried to do it the other way this time. With Dreamer’s War, I printed out the entire novel and had a great time tearing it apart with gel pens. However, when it came to type that it in, well, it more than sucked. I told myself that I learned my lesson and would get it…
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Waiving Chekhov’s Gun Around
We get caught up in NaNoWriMo. As I wrote my critiques for today the same theme kept coming up: Why is this here? Seemingly important details which call attention to themselves and go no where popped up all over. All I could think is that some of this may be a NaNoWriMo by-product. Before I go…
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Worries and Wonders
Time to choose between productivity and sleep. My writing has suffered so much in the last year. I barely have time to write, except once or twice a week. Most of the time I’m so tired I just want to veg. So a group I belong to talked about productivity last night and I had…