Tag: writing process
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A Hard Lesson
This is happening too often. In front of me, a story sits, 70K words in, and I am spiraling out of control. It is to be a lengthy story, an epic, in the fantasy genre, with my estimates being somewhere in the neighborhood of 200K+ when finished. And for the most part, I know the…
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Introducing 2023
We’re a day into the New Year, as of this post at least. As I write this, it is in the waning few days of 2022, sitting in my den with a sleeping dog next to me. As said previously in my spur-of-the-moment last post of 2022, I decided to think hard on the things…
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 10 – The Blame Game
I am unsure if this is going to be the last post or if there will be more. When I started writing these posts, taking a harder look at my own thoughts and habits encircling my writing — both career-wise and the act of writing itself, there were only 6 or 7 of these posts…
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And After a Brief Hiatus…
Last week, my family and I took a trip down to Florida so that we could visit Disney World and Universal Studios. It was the second time this year we did so (something we are exceptionally fortunate to be able to do while also having a lot of gratitude for the sacrifices that enabled it).…
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 9 – Don’t Call Me a Quitter
Punch in the gut! Oof! Ow! When I saw the title of this one (“this one” being Kristine Kathryn Rusch part 9 in her “How Writers Fail” series), I almost laughed. “There’s no way that this will relate to me! HA!” The title of this one is “They Quit”. I am no quitter (with my…
Jeremy C Kester 