“Write what you think you can’t.”
~M. T. Anderson
I’m hoping to turn this page into a collection of tips I’ve gathered during my (on-going) apprenticeship as a writer. For right now, though, it’s still under construction.
Be sure to check out some of the categories and tags in my sidebar to find posts about various writing topics. I tend to spend my writing-advice energy on the posts rather than this page so far. Also, the Writing Resources links on the sidebar have awesome stuff compiled by other people who are further along in this webpage-putting-together thing than I am. You can also look at my Manuscripts page for an idea of what I’m working on writing-wise.
Have fun exploring! Below is a list of links to the most writing relevant posts so far, since sometimes it’s nice to browse the titles.
April 2010
- Gender Skepticism: How Well Can Authors Manage the Voice of an Opposite Gendered Character? [4/8]
- Authors Confess: How to Survive an Editor’s Critique [4/1]
March 2010
- In the Morning [3/29]
- Tangled in Plot Holes [3/18]
- How to Make It Matter [3/12]
- Avoiding Cluelessness: Self Evaluating and Revision [3/9]
February 2010
- Waiting Out February [2/19]
- To Skip or to Push Through? [2/13]
- Whose Story IS It, Anyway? [2/7]
- Publication Phobia [2/4]
January 2010
- The Beauty of Brainstorming [1/27]
- Conferences Are About Community [1/24]
- How Long Before It Doesn’t Suck? [1/21]
- Don’t Do It! An Argument Against Submitting Too Soon [1/6]
- Compiling a “Reference” Library, or Why Writers Should Read and Own Books [1/1]
December 2009
- The Exigency of Belief [12/29]
- Fleshing It Out [12/26]
- Sense of Wonder [12/9]
- Attention: Tense, Tension and POV [12/6]
- The Curse of Serendipity [12/3]
November 2009
- How Writing Is Not Like Crocheting (Or What Random Analogies Teach Me About Process) [11/27]
- 10 Writers I’m Thankful For [11/24]
- Interview with a Comic Creator [11/21]
- Movies Explain the World (of Writing), Part III [11/19]
- Movies Explain the World (of Writing), Part II [11/14]
- Movies Explain the World (of Writing), Part I [11/12]
- Process Secrets [11/6]
- Disappointing Villains (vs. the Ones Who Inspire Sheer Terror . . . or Sympathy?) [11/1]
October 2009
September 2009
- Getting It [9/27]
- Only for Humble Narcisists [9/19]
