Have a goal, a simple achievable one. Not simple as in easy, but simple as in not complex. 'Write a novel' is simple (not easy.) 'Write 3000 words per week, or two chapters, every other week poetry counts as x2 word count, weekends don't count, and each story submitted counts as an extra thousand words …
Challenge
Remember when I said I was going to write another novel instead of shorts? Then when I said no wait, I'm going to work on editing? Well, now I've got some other plan. I'm going to sell a story to Clarkesworld, and keep writing stories until I do. If it means I write a novel …
Nested narratives
I'm about 3/4 done with Cloud Atlas and am starting to see the design of it. And it's really great. At first I thought that the first three, maybe even four narratives had no relevance to the final two, where the action and interest really kicked off. But now, as I begin to see how …
I cog it
I am nearing the end of Cloud Atlas, and the current viewpoint character has a very foreign (to me) dialect. The character is Hawaiian, but in a far future 'we forgot technology' situation. Perhaps some of this way of speaking is familiar to Hawaiians, but it's not to me. And this is not just dialogue, …
Website
I've decided to make one to host all my unpublished stories. They're just sitting there, on my hard drive, dozens of them, a few of them even decent reads! Why not put them somewhere readily available? So, in the near future there will be a fancy new website for folks to click on and see …
Jonas David 