motivation

  • Don’t hate that hateful Bastard.

    One of the biggest issues in my writing life is time. Sometimes, I say it’s that I don’t have it, but that’s a lie. I have time to stay up late reading about the English Monarchy on Wikipedia (Best Soap Opera ever!), I have time to argue with people on the Internet and fact-check my…

  • Back in a Flash – or not.

    Recently, I was first-reader for a well-respected fiction contest.  There is nothing like reading story after story after story to really drive home how irritating some writing habits are. I want to talk about one in particular that began to drive me a little nuts: a very common story structure.  It goes like this: Story…