Posts Tagged ‘ writing ’

Once upon a time I thought that finishing a novel was a lofty and almost unreachable goal but then I finally reached the end of my 75,000 word work. Then I asked myself the inevitable question: Now what? Because not only did I want to complete a novel length work, but I want it to...

oday I ran up against the nemesis called "Vision of Perfection" while I was working on my novel. VoP is a foe I have encountered before and thought I had permanently defeated, but today she showed up once again and tried to derail my work. Vision of Perfection or VoP works like this. You...

A few weeks ago I was at Books Inc. in Alameda, California where Elizabeth George was speaking about writing and promoting her newest book, This Body of DEATH. Elizabeth said, "I am not planning on reading from my book tonight, I imagine you all can do that yourselves..." Rather, she spoke about her process...