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 …
Interesting things
True discipline is remembering and recovering--inventing if necessary--what interests you. If it doesn't interest you how could it possibly interest anyone else? ~ Verlyn Klinkenborg Writing is so much more engaging when it's about something the writer is interested in. Notice I said the writer, not the reader. If the writer is interested in what they are writing …
Do it
Now isn't the right time... I can't really afford it... I'm not ready... I need to plan more... people think I shouldn't... I have other things I have to do first... Maybe when I retire... Do it now. You could be dead tomorrow.
Dependence on technology
My blog post yesterday was late because I set the posting time for 1130 PM instead of AM, and just trusted it to post at the usual time. I recently read that people who rely on GPS learn the streets of their area slower, and with less accuracy. I always have been a proponent of …
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 