Just to be absolutely clear, we are not talking about ceiling turtles. Ceiling turtles are vicious and will eat your ears. We’re talking your average, run-of-the-mill, preferably stuffed turtle. Stuffed as in plush. Not in a turtle-that-was-once-alive-but-now-is-not sort of way. We all know that writers aren’t the most stable crayons in the box. We all [...]

Is there such a thing as too many barbeques? I think there must be. I am barbequed out. Character naming is an interesting part of story creation. I know a lot of people who can’t write until they find the right name for a character, or the character’s name leads directly to their personality, and [...]

Going along with writing fears and insecurity, we have submission. Oh, submission. Perhaps the scariest and most disheartening of all steps of the writing process. You’ve written a story, you’ve edited and polished, and finally you’re ready to let it loose into the world to find its way. Well. Some of us never get there. [...]

On a somewhat related note to Monday, here’s another author fear that I sometimes worry about myself – doing a story justice. You know how it goes: somehow, a story worms its way into your head, as stories are wont to do. It’s brilliant. It’s amazing. If done correctly, maybe it’s your chance to finally [...]

You know why most of us write, right? (ahahaha) Because we have a story we want to tell. We may or may not care if anyone else reads it, but we want to see what happens, how the characters change, and we want to experience new things. So we write the story, and then we [...]