Still working on the 80% rule
One of the many excellent ideas and encouragements that Amie McNee suggests in her fantastic book is to get comfortable with the idea that a creative work that’...
Category: work in progress
Blaugust check-in
“Hey, man, how’s it going?” Hmm? Who’s this? “This is the central conceit of this bit. Go with it.” Um… okay? “L...
Delete everything? Never.
I read on Mastodon a couple of days back that someone I follow has deleted her longtime files of collected notes and reminders, and has experienced a huge weigh...
On creating your own niche
It’s no secret among family and friends that my income has been… let’s call it “tight” for a while. I’m ready, willing and a...
First draft of new novel: Done. ish.
I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as ...
Forward momentum
I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with ...
Confidence boosts are the best
For the sake of expediency, I won’t get into the needless background details about why this came about. But let’s just say that in the last 12 hours...
Enter… Reaper
As I recently mentioned, I’m looking at getting into voice over work to help bring in some money. I did some research and got a good (used) mic and a good...
Signs, revisited
I’ve talked previously about how I listen when I get Signs from, for lack of a less new-agey term, the universe. And… well… they’re happ...
Another novel en route
I’ve been mentioning over the last couple of months how inspired I’ve been while reading Telling Lies for Fun & Profit by Lawrence Block. I̵...