I wish I could write two things at once. But I'm terrible at focusing my attention, and anything that took my mind away from my current novel would have to be very short indeed, or risk me never going back to what I'm doing now... Should I try flash fiction again? Maybe. I've never found it very fulfilling but …
Are you begging? (72 hour read)
When I'm scrolling through my reader here on WordPress, I often see posts with a little parenthetic in the title like: (2 minute read). I'm trying to put a finger on why I almost never read these posts. I feel a resistance to click on them at all, when I see those. Unless the title …
Write about what you love?
I started reading IQ84 by Haruki Murakami recently, and one of the characters is a struggling writer. I am enjoying it quite a lot more than the previous Murakami novel I read, though it has a lot of similarities also. I wonder, though, how many writers write about writers? How many characters in novels are …
write six billion stories
If you were an immortal, how many stories could you write before you got bored of the whole idea of stories? I can't imagine ever getting tired of making stuff up... but I suppose there must be a limit. Every thing that has ever happened, never happened, can't happen, or must happen--all are stories. How, with …
Don’t tell me what I already know
There are two ways to reveal a surprise or secret you've been hinting at in a story. Well, I'm sure there's more than two but let's be black and white for a minute. There's a good way, and a bad way. There's a way that makes your reader smile and say 'ah, yes I suspected that' …
Jonas David 