As you may, or much more likely may not have noticed, for a bit more than two weeks I've been roughly inserting song lyrics into my blog posts. Yes, I am a fan of the band Toto. No, I have nothing better to do with my time then figure out how to work lyrics into …
So it begins
I have removed someone from existence and brought another into being with the flourish of my...fingers (pen would be more dramatic, but never use one). Maybe rewriting isn't so hard after all? One can hope... It's not like I'm digging for some long forgotten words or ancient melodies... I'm not working in a void, most of …
Time is water pouring through a seive
Blink and you're thirty. Blink again and you're dead. I'm listening to the ticking of the hands on a clock working overtime and thinking. "I'm never going to get all of the things I want to do, done." If I let things sit unfinished, they will never be finished. I can't afford to let projects languish …
Voices
Sometimes I'm reading and I think 'I could stand you forever', and other times I want to toss the book aside from waiting for the character to change. But each character, and narrator, should have their own unique voice. Because, the narrator isn't 'you'. You are an actor playing the part of the narrator--and the characters--when …
Brainstorming
I finished the short story I was writing, and now I'm already planning the next novel. Shorts are too short! I want to dig in and put some real thought and effort into something again. This one is going to be a murder mystery... in space. It has a lot more characters than I usually …
Jonas David 