Because you want to be famous? Â ****X**** Because you want money? ****X**** Because you want everyone to know how smart you are? ****X**** Because you want people to think you are mysterious? ****X**** Because the ghost of PKD has possessed your fingers and is forcing you to scrawl dozens of pages of deep, yet …
Something to write about
I've been writing a new thing. I'm not even ten thousand words in, but already it has gripped me, and I feel sure I'll follow it to the end, wherever that may be. It's nice to have something to work on every day again. A direction to turn my wandering mind. I feel I will …
Cleaning up
I feel like I'm chipping away garbage words in my writing like plaque scrapped from teeth. Often it's been there so long you think its a part of you. I'm making sentences shorter and clearer. Clarity is most important. If the reader can't understand what you are trying to say, then what's the point? How …
Ants
I always found ants interesting and enjoyed watching them and thinking about them... until they started exploring my house. Then i was squashing every one I spotted. How often do our opinions change based on how things affect us personally? Probably constantly. I still think ants are amazing of course, but I did not hesitate …
Enjoy the details
Don't rush to the end, take your time with each scene and enjoy the creative power you can have in your world. You can say the same cheesy thing about writing as about life in general: it's about the journey, not the destination! Wherever you are in the story, enjoy it, put your full effort …
Jonas David 