It’s been a long time in the works, but Book 1 of the Infinity Corps, Crisis on Thoraxus Prime, is now on Kickstarter! If you like classic sci-fi with rocketships and rayguns, this will be right in your orbit. Go check it out HERE
Two weeks ago, I decided to try a writing experiment. If you ever think, “Man, I never have time to write,” this is probably something worth trying. For the past several years, I’d been working on my novel only on the weekends rather than throughout the week. I consciously decided this because when you’re a …
Some of you longtime readers might remember I wrote an entry awhile back about writing horror stories and what I think is the most effective kind of “horror” as far as I am concerned (check out the entry here, if you missed it before). Well, as it turns out, I sent all of those stories …
Every writer is different and has their own way of doing things that works for them. Some people might benefit from the tip, while others wouldn’t, but I’ve always found other writers’ quirky methods fascinating, even if they don’t work for me. One of my quirky methods is I need to write with music. “That’s …
I’m about 7,000 words into my latest novel, and for several months I wondered whether I was (finally) ready to start working on it. I’ll be honest: starting a new novel is always a frightening endeavor. In general, the blank page is a daunting venture, but starting out a whole novel can be even more …
Finally finished the continuity pass on the latest novel, which now has a working title of Spectrum, and copies have gone out to my test readers. In just about every novel I’ve written, no matter how much advance planning I did before principal writing, the first three chapters or so always need work before I …
First draft of my latest novel is complete, and it’s been a long time coming. Started writing this novel at the very end of 2006, and for various and sundry reasons it took me a lot longer than usual to finish it. On average, I’d finish a novel every year or two (even monster novels …
Hurtling down the home stretch of writing a novel’s first draft is always a fun, thrilling, rewarding, and sometimes melancholy occasion. For me the fun comes from finally being able to write scenes that I’ve spent sometimes years picturing in my head. All of the world shattering events and Scooby Doo reveals are finally coming …
I’ve written a handful of short stories over the years, and apart from my work-for-hire pieces, I’ve noticed that the vast majority of them fall into the same category. Two things about these stories strike me as odd. First, all but one of them are written in first person perspective, which I rarely use; second, …