Writing For My Future: Day 1
Well, here we go with Day 1 of my writing journal where I start working on getting Dollar Deal written while also somehow managing to write enough to keep food on the table for my family. With that...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Day 2
Here is a hard fact of life. Sometimes life just gets in the way. Sundays are a day where I have my son all day while my wife works. I try to get some writing done, but it is hard … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Day 3 – Reasons To Self Publish
Well, it was a very productive day for writing for money but – once again – nothing was done on the Dollar Deal book. By forcing this nightly check-in, I am realizing how hard it really is to find time...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Day 4
Gonna keep things pure and simple today. I’m heading to bed after this because today was exhaustive for one reason or another. Tomorrow I am getting started on Dollar Deal though and will work on...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Day 5
Got a ton of writing done today, although all I did was look over some old writing when it came to the Dollar Deal book. I did put a lot of work into Renegade Cinema today and we have a … Continue...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Day 7 – Don’t Segregate Self Published Writers
I have been getting very annoyed lately. Thank God for writers like Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler for trying to talk some sense into the people who refuse to see the areas of gray around the traditional...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 8: Why I Write
You know, there are a lot of reasons that people decide they want to be professional writers. The most famous one, and the one that fits me, is that writing is what I do and it is what I feel …...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 9: More Lies Told to Writers, Plus Feminist Nonsense
Today was an interesting day. It started out with me reading another fantastic Joe Konrath blog post (seriously, the guy is on a roll), moved on to me reading one of the most insulting blog posts I...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 10: Writing Problems in the WWE
Let’s talk about writing. Let’s also talk about the WWE. Before we get started here, most of the people who know me know that I am a professional wrestling fan. Those who don’t know me should...
View ArticleFollow Up on the WWE Writing Post
Before I write today’s post, I want to touch on something I wrote about yesterday. I complained a lot in the article about bad writing in the WWE story lines, but I wanted to mention that the fans are...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 11: Journalists vs. Citizen Journalism
Wow, I didn’t get hardly any writing done today. I slept late and then had my son until I left for an advanced movie press screening in Oklahoma City tonight (Labor Day). As a result, I did pretty much...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 12: Motley Crue and New Fiction Coming
Well, I did it. I just wrote my first work of fiction in over six months. It’s for a Flash Fiction challenge by Chuck Wendig, where he challenged writers to take a classic fairy tale and re-write it in...
View ArticleRed Riding Hood (Short Story)
I was on my third scotch and water when she walked in. Although I didn’t know it at the time, she was about to lead me on my final case. She was wearing a red dress, stopping above her knees, …...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 15: The Flu Can Kill Momentum
I was doing so good, but life can sometimes get in the way. The fact that I went from Day 12 to Day 15 isn’t that great, I guess, but I can explain it away by saying my wife and … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 16: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman
It was like I was living in the ’80s again. I remember well back then, the NFC would always come into the Super Bowl against a powerhouse offense from the AFC and then just decimate them. With Peyton...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life – Day 19: Been Sick
Being sick sucks. It means your head isn’t wanting to operate right to get work done and it means you can’t make it to great press screenings like tonight’s Monuments Men screening. Hopefully I get...
View ArticleAuthors Earnings Website Opens Eyes About Money
Man, writing is hard. I don’t mean that I have trouble when I am writing, because that comes pretty naturally for me. However, when bills need to be paid and money is tight, the hard part is finding...
View ArticleThrowback Pic of the Week: WWZJD
I hate the fact that so much went wrong in post production for this movie. Don’t give up on seeing it, though. Stranger things have happened. Month to Date Writing (creative writing): 0 words (month to...
View ArticleFeedreader Gives Writers a Perfect Tool to Find Ideas
This is a post that describes a product that I use every day when I am looking for stories and ideas to write about. Its an RSS feed program called Feedreader that really blows away Google Alerts....
View ArticleFantastic Four and Changing Characters Race and Gender
Let’s talk about something completely different. There has been a lot of talk about movies changing the ethnicity and gender of specific comic book characters and whether it is ok or not. Of course, it...
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