Tag: process
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Into 2017
I always say that I am not going to make any resolutions for the new year, but as every new year comes (with my birthday happening only days later) I find that I am examining the prior year and resolving to change things. With 2016 having been especially tough on my family and I, my…
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The Artist vs The Industry
As self-publishing has taken off, I am often left to wonder how it had ever got to a point where entry into the field depended on everyone other than the artist. Of course this is due to my thinking in idealist terms. The artist controls his or her art in full. Said person brought the…
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Searching for My Success
I’ve been at this for 4 years. I’ve been writing for much longer than that, but 4 years ago I self-published my first book Remember the Yorktown, book 1 of my sci-fi saga Gravity. Since then I have added 5 other works to my backlist, 2 more additions to my Gravity saga (book 2, book…
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Advice for This Newbie Writer
There is a lot of advice out there for writers. Finding good advice however is an issue. The problem isn’t that the advice itself isn’t good, but rather that the advice just doesn’t fit the level that I am at in my writing career. For example, the other day I read an article off of…
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It just isn’t good enough
This is a “beat myself up” post. I started writing somewhere in my early teens. A lot of it was a response to what others were doing, but it evolved into something that I found I was pretty decent at. When I am in the zone, I can also be extremely prolific as well. Given…