Tag Archive: novels

May 01

How to Find Your Novel Through Revisions

When you are done with your first book it’s an amaz­ing feel­ing. Some­thing that came from within your soul is on paper, or hard drive. No one can take that moment from you. After that moment you have to go through it and find the story. If this is your first novel, that may be interesting. …

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Nov 12

Finding Your Genius Writer

Writ­ing is some­thing spe­cial to me, it’s some­thing that makes me breathe, makes me dream and most of all I feel it has made me more free. I’ve writ­ten two books, yes t-w-o. Each of them have their good parts. Most of all I learned how to write bet­ter by writ­ing each one. They may never be …

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Aug 13

Writing Is…

The first draft is the one that gets all the thoughts you’ve been think­ing. The part where you decide if the story is really worth the effort of the re-writes. I usu­ally know within the first two pages how it will go and whether I should keep going. Writ­ing is cathar­tic, it’s a way for me …

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Feb 23

Anne Rice: The Wolf Gift, a Book Review

I love Reuben and I’m hop­ing she does more with him, if she doesn’t I’ll read it again and see if there was any­thing I missed.

Feb 15

My love and respect of Anne Rice and her writing

I love Anne Rice. I’ve read all the vam­pire chron­i­cles, the May­fair books and her other books (except the Christ the Lord series). There are cer­tain artists I want phys­i­cal copies of. I am a huge Nine Inch Nails fan and I have every one of their albums as a phys­i­cal copy, some of them I …

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Jan 09

Finding new things to improve your writing

This year I set some high goals. Some that, when my wife read them she kind of gave me a look of “okay, go for it.” Among the things I’m doing to improve my writ­ing this year are books, lots of books on writ­ing, art and self-improvement. Last year I received a book from a friend, …

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Dec 12

Panic stricken

Writ­ing has been a cover, a way for me to make my life mean some­thing. When a story goes awry, I feel like I was punched in the stom­ach and there is noth­ing I can do at that moment to fix it. Get­ting a voice, find­ing a voice, hav­ing that voice say some­thing. Why does this …

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Sep 12

How writing has changed who I am.

I’ve climbed down from the sum­mit of my ego and felt real­ity hit me in the face in one form or another.

Aug 29

Tools of the writing trade, which do you prefer?

Won­der­ing what writ­ing device every­one uses.

Aug 08

Being a writer takes thick skin.

Writ­ing is an art form and like every art form the artist has to learn how to han­dle criticism.

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