Syncing Forward by W. Lawrence: I’m sinking, God help me I’m sinking!

I get the feeling that Syncing Forward started out as a decent sci-fi novella, then had about thirty thousand words of family drama inserted into it. I spent a good portion of the first two thirds of this story shaking my head in confusion wondering why I was being told any of this, and the …

Book clubs: how do you do it?

I can't time my desire to read a book. It's almost like the books I pick decide for me to read them. So the couple times I've tried to join a book club, I've always ended up reading something else than what I'm supposed to. I like the idea of having a discussion with people …

Do more than one thing

As some of you may know, my other hobby besides writing is playing Go, or Baduk, and there are several sayings or 'proverbs' that players hear when learning the game. One of them is something like 'a move that only does one thing is a bad move'. I had an epiphany one day, when having extra …

Think about it all the time

My writing output has been increasing lately because of this. When I'm not writing, I try to think about what I'll write next. Simple right? But it's so easy to get distracted, and busy, and lose sight of what you were doing. Especially if you don't have much time to write, you've got to make …