Dear Readers, It is with heavy heart that I announce that as of now, I will be indefinitely suspending my efforts to pursue representation for Deathless, my novel. I began working on Deathless on July 22, 2013, more than six years ago. Back then, I never imagined that I would still be working on it …
Writing time is a fragile thing for me. I often have the attention span of a goldfish, so any small distraction is liable to turn a solid chunk of time that I’ve set aside for writing into something else entirely. I hesitate to say “wasted time,” but if we’re being honest, that’s often what it …
Throughout the long process of this first round of revisions, I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer. Unfortunately, one of those things is that I seem to have no idea how to properly use commas. Regular readers of this blog are already well aware of this, I’m sure. Consider the following example from …
Today I’m going to address something that is currently helping me out immensely in continuing my rough draft of Laz: Writing scenes out of order. If you have experience in writing novels, you may be thinking well, duh, but writing out of order was something that I was dead set against when I first started …