I used to think that writing a book was the only thing I needed to do to be a writer. I guess in a way I was right. By writing, I am a writer. Just not a published one. Now that I have done some writing and even gotten a couple stories published, I know that the writing can be the easiest part (believe it or not) of the process. I was reminded of this when I looked at my most recently completed story. As you may or may not know, on Sunday I finished writing my podcast novel, GalaxyBillies. It was a lot of work but it is finally done. At least, the podcast version is. I hadn’t been […]
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Story Ideas
With NaNoWriMo fast approaching, I wanted to talk about the process where I develop my own ideas into stories. For the purpose of this I will use a sample idea and work it through. Coming up with a story idea This is the single easiest part of the story for me. I get story ideas from everywhere all the time. From television, movies, other books, going for walks and hearing the news. The commonly held belief among “Experts” is that there are no new idea. Just new ways to execute them. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know. I just know that I get these cool story ideas running through my head and I can’t wait to start writing. […]
Read moreThe Plate Overflows
The weather is cooling off, the sun is going down earlier and the kids are back in school. It must be fall. Time to switch gears once again. Fall means a lot of changes to my schedule. I add both Scouts and Cub Scouts to my week (Scouts are Monday and Cubs are Tuesday), plus campouts. That sucks a lot of time. Time I’ve been using to write and podcast. So what do I give up? Well, actually, I’m not going to give anything up. Part of the reason for that is I will be finishing GalaxyBillies in the next two weeks so that writing and podcasting will go away for now. Mind you, I am going to be adding […]
Read moreIt’s Time to Start Thinking NaNoWriMo
You may think I’m jumping the gun a little when I say that it is time to start thinking about NaNoWriMo. After all, it’s only the beginning of September and NaNo is in November. Except, November is less than TWO months away and if you hope to hit the 50,000 word mark in 30 days you need to know what you’re going to write about. That takes planning (unless you are just going to type the same word 50,000 times, of course). For my first NaNo, I knew what I wanted to write. I had a story idea in mind that had been clamouring to be told for years. That was the good news. The bad news was, I only […]
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