I’ve got ADHD and approach life a little sideways. This isn’t something I have a lot of control over. Sometimes, that’s a negative, sometimes it helps me see things that maybe not everyone else sees. I think this is why I really appreciate some of the marginalized genres that don’t get a lot of mainstream…
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This popped up in my memories this morning. This was a historic moment for me–I’d already had my mind blown about the importance of knowing your Content genre but I hadn’t yet had my mind blown about applying the correct genre to my climax. Reading the Story Grid changed the way I thought about writing.…
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An online friend asked how I was doing with the novel. Here’s an overview of where I am at the moment, and a sneak peak at the rewritten beginning. I just finished a solid sixth draft of the novel for a class from Joe Bunting called 100 Day Book. In March I had a novel…
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I had a brief moment of flow (the creative state where you’re in the groove and writing just flows) a week ago Saturday but was called away to take care of Things because I’m a responsible chap and it was a pleasant day in Wisconsin. As so often happens, when I throttled the Muse, I…
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From THE BLUE GOLEM. While Clay Golem is being interviewed by Proctor Lan Lupos to get a feeling for his mental state at the behest of the city’s High Council, six ruffians break into the cottage. A silence followed the din and then the Proctor calmly interposed himself in the standoff. “Before we proceed any…
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I had a realization tonight – it’s time to get back to work. I took some time off after turning my novel in to my editor for a comprehensive diagnostic and took more time off after receiving it back (as recommended), and it has been good. I’ve been reading, I’ve been watching things which will…
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Another Christmas, another dawning realization that THE BLUE GOLEM, while much improved since this time last year, still isn’t quite ready for prime time. I was really hoping that three strong drafts would be enough. It’s not. My friend Eugene Polonsky is working on his fifth draft, and he’s really good. On one hand I’m…
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I have a sequence in my upcoming novel where the protagonist, Clay Golem, an 8′ blue behemoth, fights two big cats in a cage underneath the second floor office of a local mob boss reached through a trapdoor in the floor of the office. I had an idea the cats were big—like Sabretooth Tiger big—but…
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