Tag: writing process
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Curse You, Hugh Howey!
It can be seen as a standard interview question: who do you picture when you think about what success looks like? For me, one of the people that pop into my mind first is Hugh Howey. For those who haven’t already googled Hugh, here’s a quick byte on who he is: Hugh is the bestselling…
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Know Thyself
I didn’t fall off the horse, per-say. In a manner of speaking, I willingly got off (that horse being writing and posting) when I saw that my life was getting too stressful to attempt to manage my hobby as well. For the last two weeks I have had a busy life. Not unmanageable, just busy…
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Learning the Slow Game
News will trick you. It does to me. A lot. Particularly in the world of published works, success stories, and the like. It tricks me because I almost want to be tricked. Those “overnight” successes, I want them to be true, because I want to be one of them. (Yes, even despite my prior post…
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About the Books
One of the things as a writer, particularly an indie writer, that I feel that I must learn to become more skilled at, is talking about my books. Why? Because inevitably when some person approaches me and asks me what I write about, I get flustered and usually end up speaking in overly generic terms.…
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You’re either with me…
…or I don’t care. There’s a funny thing happening to me as I write more: I am caring less and less whether I make it big. At all. That seems funny, but at least at this point it is true. Sure, there is that drive that I want to be able to make my living…