Howdy, squiders! I dug back into my collection of library book sale books and came out with The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton, circa 1922. This is another one of those books where I try to imagine what
Movie Round-up
I don’t get around to a lot of movies (a combination of small, mobile ones combined with just not liking to sit still for that long in one go), but I have actually watched three in the last week. Madness,
Picture Books and Progress
Happy Friday, squiders! I hope you’re doing well. It keeps snowing on my plans over here in these parts. I think I’ve told you guys about my plan to try out writing some picture books. I tried once before (waaaaay
Troubleshooting Your Outlining Issues
All right, squiders! I think this is the last bit of the outlining book. And from here, it’ll be time to go back through all the nonfiction book posts, put them together, and see what’s missing. Woo. Outlining issues essentially
WriYe and 2019
So, in December, I got an email letting me know that the WriYe boards were being refreshed for 2019, and it was a weird blast from the past. Do they send these emails out every year and I’ve just ignored
Epcot and Expectations
Happy Tuesday, squiders! I am so glad to be home! (Although I am behind on everything, but what else is new?) You see, last week we took the smallish, mobile ones to the most expensive happiest place on Earth. I
Why Science Fiction/Fantasy?
I was ditzing around the blog and discovered a variety of draft posts that never got written, for whatever reason. This is the earliest, from 2010, right after I started this blog up. No reason to let things sit around
Using Outlines for Revision
A lot of people consider outlines as something you need before you start writing your first draft, but I would argue that they’re a much more important tool for the revision phase of a project. That’s not to say that
2018 Books in Review
So, if you’ve been around for a while, squiders, you know it’s time for me to do my nerdy reading stats for the year before. This year I barely eked out my 50 books on the last day, whoops. Books
Looking Back at 2018 and Ahead at 2019
For the last few years, I’ve had a spreadsheet with a general idea of what I want to get done for the year and the general time frame in which I think it’s going to get done. There’s a lot