Tag: writing

What Just Happened? An Incomplete Journey of a NaNoWriMo Newbie – Part 2

Journal Entry: NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 1: And So It Begins… So, the alarm went off at 4 AM with a note: “NaNoWriMo Wake Up.” Right. I said I was going to do that. After coffee, a look at the news, a moment of meditation to rid myself of the stink of the news, and another…
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What Just Happened? An Incomplete Journey of a NaNoWriMo Newbie – Part 1

Journal Entry: NaNoWriMo 2021 T-Minus 38 Days: The Decision The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting creative writing. Its main program is an annual event in which crazy people attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during November. My math skills tell me that comes to 1,667 words per day. That…
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Short Story: Terminal Conversations

Time travel has been written about so many times, there can’t be anything fresh in it. I decided to play with time travel once—and only once.

“Terminal Conversations” appeared in Travel a Time Historic, an anthology published in 2005.

How to: Develop a Writing Routine

Psychologically, routines are comfort food. They are there when other things are not. They are what we go to when we don’t know what else to do. Naturally, developing a routine in anything–be it writing or exercise or reading or needlepoint–is important to us as humans.

A Semi-Not-Horribly-Regular Newsletter #1

In this issue: New Posts, Book News, Past Week’s Work.

Preparing to Write Pike’s Wrong

This is an article about preparation, or to be more exact, the lack of said preparation. Standing at the edge of one my previous jobs, I could easily see the Front Range of the Rockies stabbing their defiant fists into the air. The most prominent fist is Pikes Peak, what the brochures call “America’s Mountain.” One…
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Ghost Vomit: Or How Ideas are Born

Inspiration: noun \ˌin(t)-spə-ˈrā-shən, -(ˌ)spi-\ A divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation. (Merriam-Webster) Inspiration. That divine breath of literary genius given to us as sacred revelations wherein we all ascend from poor writer to rich author. Or maybe it’s just the crap that…
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What is Kindle Vella? PART 3

This final post will talk about covers, whether you can connect other work to a Vella story, and marketing opportunities that exist.

What is Kindle Vella? PART 2

This post on Kindle Vella covers the Reader Experience, rules, and ease of publishing.

What is Kindle Vella? PART 1

I decided to write this post because I decided recently to take the plunge into the beta version of Kindle Vella, to see what I might do with it, and to understand the nooks and crannies before it becomes a full-blown global thing.